Re: How wold you go about writing a new OpenLDAP backend?

Howard Chu wrote: > John Lewis wrote: >> What if I wanted to write a OpenLDAP backend for a systemd journal file >> or Elasticsearch so I can present my logs as an LDAP subtree so I can >> use my LDAP tools to filter my logs? Should I use back-shell for >> prototyping? If so, what is the usual work flow? > > back-shell might work for rough prototyping. back-sock would be more reasonable these > days. For prototyping a back-sock listener in Python you could give module slapdsock a try: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/slapdsock Personally I use it for OATH-LDAP's bind listeners which seem to work fairly robust on moderate load. But the release 0.5.2 should also work with all other request types. If you have a non-trivial deployment the sheer amount of log data can cause some interesting performance issues.