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

To: Prentice Bisbal <pbisbal@pppl.gov>, openldap-technical@openldap.org
Subject: Re: How wold you go about writing a new OpenLDAP backend?
From: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 19:55:41 +0100
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Prentice Bisbal wrote:

On 05/31/2017 12:37 AM, 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?

This sounds like the wrong tool for this job.

Really? Can you give a point by point comparison against what you think is the"right" tool for the job?


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