Re: Question about writing custom backends for openldap

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Michael L Torrie wrote:

> I have read the overlay introduction document and I think overlays can
> do everything I need to do.  From my reading overlays can:
> 1. modify any ldap request and then pass it on to the backend
> 2. respond to a request, bypassing the backend altogether
> 3. modify a response from the backend before passing it to the frontend
> 4. replace a response from the backend
>
> Is this correct?
>  
Yes.

> I'll being to investigate this path for basing my project on.  I'll
> probably have a few programming questions later.  Should those be asked
> here or on the devel list?
Anything regarding slapd internals will be discussed on the -devel list, 
so you should subscribe to that list to stay up to date.

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