LDAP (Sorry for the double post)

[Bradley J. Bartram]

Here my experience with openLDAP:

One day I got ambitious, and decided that since my company no longer used 
exchange as its central information database, I'd set up an LDAP server.  I 
don't quite know what demonic forces took posession of my mind to do this at 
that time, but into the fray I stepped.

I was fairly confident that it couldn't have been too bad as I was working as 
a database administrator and system administrator so I had a fair knowledge 
of what went into the technology.  I was sorely mistaken.

OpenLDAP as all LDAP servers are quite a different beast from most things I 
had encountered.  There was a very rigid schema needing to be followed as 
well as a steep learning curve.  It was very intimidating at first.

Within a day, I did have a working directory, but it was not what I would 
even remotely consider production quality.  It worked nice for what it was 
meant to do and integrated fine with Outlook and Outlook Express for 
corporate directory lookups.

In hindsight I can say that I am a better man for having done the experiment. 
 I would, however, recommend that anyone looking seriously into an LDAP 
directory absorb as much as possible on its workings and setup prior to 
implementing one.

I'll also take a second to apologize to Bob Meyer, cause if he hasn't found 
this Franken-LDAP creation I referenced yet, he will and then it'll be his 
mess.  :-)

brad

On Thursday 04 April 2002 01:38 pm, you wrote:
> From teh documentation (since I haven;t used it yet) OPEON Ldap is slower
> than the propr. ones fom Netscape or Novell, but free,
>
> The queries are fast and Hierarchical!
>
> LDAP is seen in Linux as a replacement for NIS and is considered future as
> more apps start supporting it for user info lookup....
>
> JJN
>
> --- "Wechter, Ron" <WechterR at cnrc.navy.mil> wrote:
> > Does anyone have experience with LDAP.  I have a few questions:
> >
> > 1.	How much bandwidth does it take up (Is it very slow ex. Like
> > Exchange over a modem)?
> > 2.	Does the client keep a constant connection to the LDAP server or are
> > the queries quick and responsive?
> > 3.	Is there anything better than LDAP?  Is LDAP old technology or is
> > there something better I should be looking into?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Ronald K. Wechter
> > NRD Buffalo Assistant Systems Administrator
> > NRD Buffalo Webmaster
> > Navy Recruiting Department Buffalo
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>
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