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Re: slapd new backend

To: "Malcolm Cowen" <mc@cowensw.co.uk>
Subject: Re: slapd new backend
From: "Gavin Henry" <ghenry@suretecsystems.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:24:42 -0000 (GMT)
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<quote who="Malcolm Cowen">
> Hi,
> I've charged with designing a new backend to slapd for a client, and this
> is the first time I've worked on OpenLDAP.

My first question is why a new backend? What are you/they trying to do?
Why are you doing it if you've never seen OpenLDAP code before is another
one ;-)

>
> I've got the API documentation, and the setup type documentation from the
> website.  None of that covers the backends much however, so I'm currently
> going through the various call hooks provided by the system using debug to
> see what is going on.
>
> Is there any other documentation/information that would be relevant that I
> should know about?

The source.

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