Re: Openldap replication over XMPP

[David Boreham <david_list@boreham.org>]

On 7/23/2010 1:35 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
> > passwordSync:  What are you thinking here? DLL that recognizes password
> > changes and creates apropriate hashes and syncs these into OpenLDAP, or
>
> Yes. Bi-directionally, of course - it should also intercept LDAP 
> passwordModify requests and forward them to AD.
Can the FDS/389 password sync client be used or are there license issues 
with it (I presume it'll be GPL like the rest of FDS) ?
If you can use it, then some or perhaps all of the work on the Windows 
end can be avoided.
It talks to the DS via LDAP, I think with some minimal extensions (it's 
been a long time
since I looked at the code so I'm not 100% sure).

There's also code in FDS to send changes to AD via LDAP (including 
password changes).
Whether or not that code would be useful I'm not sure. It'd certainly be 
useful as a reference
for how to talk to AD successfully. Possibly there's similar code in 
other projects too.
There are a few hoops you need to jump through in order to get password 
changes into AD
successfully, iirc.