The code that Antoine has done has been committed to your repository? I've had a browse of the svn and I'm not seeing anything obvious. -- Paul Edwards Solutions Engineer Identity Solutions Practice --------------------------------------------------------- hyro W www.hyro.com
________________________________________ From: akaras...@gmail.com [akaras...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Alex Karasulu [akaras...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, 14 January 2011 9:24 a.m. To: users@directory.apache.org Subject: Re: ApacheDS and other backends Hi Paul, On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Paul Edwards <paul.edwa...@hyro.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm hoping someone can shed light on whether I can use apacheDS as a frontend > to other directories or possibly even a database. Yes you certainly can. It's all a matter of how much effort you want to put into it. I have a scenario where I want to put apacheDS as a front to ADLDS. (cut down active directory). I'm wanting to do authentication against ADLDS, and then do some of my own stuff. > You're in luck, Antoine just recently finished adding a new feature that enables ApacheDS to delegate authentication to Active Directory, and presumably other LDAP servers. You make reference to this at the end of your email. So when you authenticate into ApacheDS, it delegates the authentication to AD. Then you can work within ApacheDS to add any kind of application specific data to it. This however does not mean that ApacheDS will show you what's inside AD when you connect to it. This is another matter all together that virtual directories do. However if you do want to present data via ApacheDS that is mastered by AD, then you can write your own customer backend (we call them partitions) to access this information and present it as if it came from ApacheDS. Likewise you can make another ApacheDS partition which accesses an RDBMS to show database information as LDAP entries. Virtual directories are designed specifically to allow you to do this without coding yourself but ApacheDS presently does not have this capability. You would have to write a custom partition to do this or use a Virtual Directory like Penrose. > I cannot see anything in the docs about using apacheds as a front to another > directory service. Is this possible? I do however see notes about writing a > new interceptor that can do pass through authentication to another ldap > service. Are people able to shed more light on this? I think I covered these questions above. > > Thanks > -- > Paul Edwards > Solutions Engineer > Identity Solutions Practice > --------------------------------------------------------- > hyro > W www.hyro.com > -- Alex Karasulu My Blog :: http://www.jroller.com/akarasulu/ Apache Directory Server :: http://directory.apache.org Apache MINA :: http://mina.apache.org To set up a meeting with me: http://tungle.me/AlexKarasulu
