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

[kiran madala]

May be i will just try to write a script to store the sync values from Fedora  Where can I find the documentation as to how the fedora performs the sync and where does it store? I mean development wise 
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> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:48:00 -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:
>> 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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