[Obm] LDAP Server Roles?

[Erwan Queffélec]

BonjourFabien,

Wehave both a mandatory relational database (one should use postgresql) 
and anoptional integrated LDAP server(openldap).

The process is : the database acts as the "master" data storage, and a 
subset of its data istranslated and loaded into the OBM LDAP server.

OBMmust be able to reconstruct this internal LDAPusing only the data 
stored within the relational database. Bottom line, theOBM LDAP server 
can be viewed a read-only component (at least I strongly advise using 
itas such)

There are a lot of stuff you can do with OBM using the internal LDAP or 
an external directory,butreplacing the OBM relational database simply 
isn't one of them.

What exactly are you trying to achieve ?

Regards,

Erwan

PS : on the technical side, the internal LDAP provisioning process is 
ruled by a small perl program called the automate(automaton), also 
called the obm-service package. Long terms plan are to obsolete this 
package and let our main java component(obm-sync) do the job, and 
exposinga RESTful provisioning APIcapable of creating OBM entities 
(users,etc) simulaneously on IMAP, SMTP and LDAP backends.This 
provisioning API can be fed using a"master", externalLDAP server. Our 
upcoming 2.6 release will provide a large part of this API, though it 
will still require the automaton for several tasks (creation of users 
throughthe web UI)

On 12/06/2013 03:41 PM, f.bonnet at labsoft.fr wrote:
> Bonjour!
>
> Will make it in english but I'm from Toulouse :)
>
> How can the ldap service help with on an obm installation? it seems to
> work well with the Database only. But i'm pretty sure there is
> something interesting with the ldap.
> I'm setting up obm to use mail, contacts, tasks, maybe file sharing,
> and some calls from an external program.
>
> I'm gonna have some questions as I'm working on a project which
> includes OBM, is it ok if I keep posting here?
>
> Merci par advance,
> Fabien
>
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