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Re: How wold you go about writing a new OpenLDAP backend?



Howard Chu wrote:
> John Lewis wrote:
>> What if I wanted to write a OpenLDAP backend for a systemd journal file
>> or Elasticsearch so I can present my logs as an LDAP subtree so I can
>> use my LDAP tools to filter my logs? Should I use back-shell for
>> prototyping? If so, what is the usual work flow?
> 
> back-shell might work for rough prototyping. back-sock would be more reasonable these
> days.

For prototyping a back-sock listener in Python you could give module slapdsock a try:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/slapdsock

Personally I use it for OATH-LDAP's bind listeners which seem to work fairly robust on
moderate load. But the release 0.5.2 should also work with all other request types.

If you have a non-trivial deployment the sheer amount of log data can cause some
interesting performance issues.

Ciao, Michael.

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