Re: MS AD <-> OpenLDAP

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Gavin Henry wrote:
> ----- "marcelo xavier"<marcelo.xavier@caixa.gov.br>  wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > Iâm developing a MS Active Directory plug-in to replicate users and
> > passwords to OpenLDAP
> >
> >
> >
> > The main objective is improve migration from MS AD to OpenLDAP
> >
> >
> >
> > Have anyone interest on this?
> >
> > This project can make part off OpenLdap solution or not?
>
> Hi,
>
> There have been many discussions about this throughout the years. Your best bet is
> to browse our archives and also read:
>
> http://www.openldap.org/devel/contributing.html
>
> But please bear in mind that if it was a trivial job it would have been done already ;-)

No need to scare him. Password synchronization *is* a trivial job.

Full synchronization is a little more effort, but there's nothing complex 
about it. A simple translation of a few attributes is all it would take to 
make syncrepl work.

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