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Re: OpenLDAP-devel (v2.0): Extended Operations



At 11:02 AM 3/28/00 -0700, Scott Saad wrote:
>Hi there.  I'm wondering how difficult/easy it will be to add Extended
>Operations to slapd.

It all depends on what the extended operation is going to do.
Integrate (let alone implementation) can range from quite
simple to extermely difficult.

>Is there going to be some kind of "plugin" framework?

Yes.  But the framework is not generalized to handle all
possible extended operations.

>Does one exist now?

Yes.  See StartTLS-exop and Passwd-change-exop codes for
examples.

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>I appreciate any you may provide...
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>Scott Saad
>Software Engineer
>Anark Communications
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