OpenLDAP as virtual Directory

Hi,

My name's Gilles, a french programmer. I'm in intership for 6 months and I have to work on LDAP.
Recently, my work is to search and learn LDAP and virtual directory (penrose and myVD).

I need to know if it's possible to build a Virtual Directory directly with OpenLDAP. I saw some discussion where people was pretty sure that was possible.

If it's possible, can you give me some help/documentation/advice about this.

Thanks a lot,

Gilles.

If is not too late I solved the same problem last week

You can use the meta backend

database meta
suffix "dc=suffix,dc=sample"
uri "ldap://10.12.141.153/dc=suffix,dc=sample"
rootdn "cn=admin,dc=suffix,dc=sample"
rootpw secret
idassert-bind bindmethod=simple
binddn="cn=User,ou=Users,dc=suffix,dc=sample"
credentials=secret
flags=override


The important think is the flags=override, it allows you to authenticate in the OpenLDAP and connect with the binddn in the remote (proxy). You will also need to use the old slapd.conf style with the OpenLDAP 2.4+, the backend meta is not supported with the new config.

Regards,

Ahah, too late, my internship is over for 2 weeks :P

But thanks a lot, it could help other people !
Have a nice day joelzamboni, and Happy new year !

Yes, I hope that it helps someone else!!! Happy new year!!!