Via the Fedora Miniconf, I attended Del Elson’s talk on Migrating to Fedora Directory Server. Interesting scripts, and glue code was presented, the slides (verbose, good) are online, but there’s no video :(
Tiny amount of notes:
LDAP vs. DBMS
- directory has one schema, one “row” type (“object”). RDBMS has many tables
- directory => optimised for reads, slow for writes
- directory has an adaptable and mutable schema format – good for storing information about “people”
- think about the fact, that people usually have more than one phone number…
- access protocol – ldap vs. sql
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