Despite not understanding the architecture completely, it sounds like LDAP will
fill your needs.
Have a read of the following man pages to see if it's what you're after:
slapd-ldap
slapo-translucent
slapo-chain
Good luck!
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From: Yang Sun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:59 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: LDAP Reference Works?
Hi,
I am new to LDAP world. And I am trying to design a distribute data
structure for storing the user information in our project. I am not sure
whether using ldap reference is the right way to do this job. Please give me
some suggestion. The detailed situation is:
We manage tens of sites. And the sites are orgnized in a tree
structure. The requirement is to store the information in the local site (means
no central place to store the information for all the sites). It will give the
system the maximum flexiblity to expand and when the site is isolated the local
site still works well. Sometimes, the local site will need information stored
in other sites.
I think it is a distribute database architecture. And it reminds me to
use the LDAP reference function. So each local site will have a reference to
its parent site and some references to its child sites. It gives a logical view
of the tree with information for all the sites. I am not sure whether it is
possible to do that and whether it has some difficulties to implement it using
OpenLDAP.
Any suggestion?
Thanks,
Yang Sun
