Re: Mysql as a backend for LDAP

[Steven Doyle <s.doyle@ecu.edu.au>]

On Friday, September 27, 2002, at 10:25  PM, Adam Williams wrote:

> Yes, but you don't want to.  Why does everyone keep thinking using an
> RDBMS as a backend to LDAP is a good idea?  And mysql no less...  I
> might be able to understand Oracle, DB2, etc...  If you don't 
> understand
> why this is a terrible idea please go read the FAQ entry about this.

I'm pretty sure that its NOT a good idea after reading that FAQ, but 
i'm stuck with data in a mysql database and I need to be able to use 
the opendirectory (aka Ldap) in OS X to authenticate against this 
data...unless anyone has a a better idea of how to populate an ldap 
server with data from a mysql database and keep them reasonably in sync 
(ie 12 hours behind password changes is fine, a week isn't!)

Cheers,

Steve