[Fedora-directory-users] Windows Active Directory sync Help!

[Rich Megginson]

kiran madala wrote:
> But isn't it how the fedora ds does the AD sync?. I mean can I just write the script to connect to AD directly and do ldapsearch for updates?
Yes.  The thing is that Fedora DS will not automatically send changes to 
a database.  You'd have to write a plugin for that.  It's much simpler 
to just script it - most scripting languages have ODBC/SQL support as 
well as LDAP support.
> Alternatively can I do a script to search for the user against his/her group from the updates obtained by Fedora-ds from AD?
I'm not sure what you mean by "against his/her group".
> IF so what are the docs and packages i should be looking at?
>
> Thanks in advance
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>> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:40:19 -0700
>> From: rmeggins at redhat.com
>> To: fedora-directory-users at redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Windows Active Directory sync Help!
>>
>> kiran madala wrote:
>>     
>>> Thank you the sync works fine. My actual task is to store the AD users and groups in our company database through the fedora-ds. I was wondering if this is possible,
>>>
>>> Like  AD-->FDS-->Own database
>>>
>>> IS this a possibility?. If it is then how would I do it?
>>>   
>>>       
>> The usual way to do this is to write a script to use ldapsearch to pull 
>> changes from Fedora DS and write them to your database.
>>     
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