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List:       openldap-technical
Subject:    Re: OpenLDAP SQL
From:       Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah () fast-mail ! org>
Date:       2024-03-05 16:34:07
Message-ID: 4C50C4AD7BDB9E02402958D0 () [192 ! 168 ! 1 ! 33]
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--On Tuesday, March 5, 2024 3:59 PM +0000 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:

> kimkihoon  wrote:
>> I'm trying to use mysql external db server for openLDAP db.
>> I just read this README file from openldap
>> github(https://github.com/openldap/openldap/blob/master/servers/slapd/ba
>> ck-sql/rdbms_depend/README) But it seems only localhost server can be
>> used.
>> Can anyone tell me how?
>
> Examples in documentation are only examples, nothing more. You can use
> any valid ODBC configuration but nobody has time to write every possible
> config value and use case out.


I would add that back-sql is experimental, unmaintained, and known to have 
numerous bugs.  Additionally SQL is not a good fit as a backend to LDAP and 
will be significantly slower than using a native database such as back-mdb.

--Quanah

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