my thunderbird does not appear to be using back-shell's searchexample.sh..?
i have compiled openldap on a desktop windows xp machine with the back-shell backend enabled without threads.
slapd.conf is configured as suggested in the file searchexample.conf at http://tinyurl.com/47t9ets. i have added the file searchexample.sh from http://tinyurl.com/4823rtf in the appropriate directory. i start up slapd, /usr/local/libexec/slapd -d 256 -h ldap://localhost and it appears to fire up: $ /usr/local/libexec/slapd -d 256 -h ldap://localhost @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.24 (Feb 14 2011 09:29:58)
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You should read the manual page slapd-shell(5) for guidance.
yes, i have visited and read this page prior to posting. however, i am still at a loss and confused.
perhaps i am seeing the role of the /etc/passwd file in the sample shell script incorrectly: if one's back-shell setup was working correctly, should one be able to utilize the sample searchexample.sh file+an /etc/passwd file to feed an ldap client application such as thunderbird possible recipient entries? is so, where might i be going awry?
my current goal is the following: get slapd to run with a shell backend and thunderbird on my local desktop. our team's overall goal is to enable this setup on a linux server: we'd like to eliminate our ldap server and utilize this slapd+back-shell mechanism to access our oracle db for our ldap clients. once we are able to get this all working with back-shell, we'd like to replace the shell role with php scripts. any guidance on this task in general is greatly appreciated.
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If you really want to access a sql database and relay the results to ldap you should test with back-sql(5), there are test suites in the source code servers/slapd/back-sql/rdbms_depend
yes, prior to examining the back-shell option, i extensively researched the back-sql option; back-sql was my first choice. unfortunately, my supervisor currently favors the back-shell (or even -perl, which a teammate is researching) backend solution.
please advise.