This daemon was (and is being written) in order to migrate a large install
base of UNIX systems utilizing NIS to an LDAP based solution, eventually
facilititing a migration of all corporate services that rely on similar data to
LDAP.
This (and future) LDAP related tools are
being released under the BSD License (with advertising clause). You might be
interested in LAST, an LDAP administration tool written by Adam, at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/last.
LAST is licensed under the GPL
Please understand that the project is, at best, a beta. The previous author
did his best
to eliminate bugs and provide a well written piece of software, but some
things just aren't implemented yet, and this may not even be readily
configurable to work with your schema. Give us time, or better yet, code
There is no documentation yet, the previous author did not have the time
Mind you, when I figure out what it all does, you'll be getting documentation
This program acts as an NIS service, gathering information from various plugin
modules accessing backend services - at the moment, as far as I know, LDAPv2 is
somewhat supported. Guess I'll be changing this as soon as I can get my head
around BOTH concepts.
Over the next few days, I will be going over the source code and working
out what it all does, and seeing whether I can make any obvious changes
straight away. The previous author gave this project as he was completely
bored with it and wanted to drop the project in a bucket and forget it ever
existed.
However, I decided it'd be a great challenge to learn about
something I have no experience in, and thereby gain the experience. So -
Wish me luck.
More news at ten.