Re: Import LDAP data to a Postgres database

marcoecommerce(at)hotmail(dot)it (Marco Curtolo) writes:
> Hi, my question is this: it is possible to query, using SQL, an LDAP
> server and put these data to a table of a Postgres database (under
> linux) ???

Unfortunately, the LDAP model is more or less a "network model," which
doesn't fit terribly elegantly onto SQL.

You can in fact use PostgreSQL as the backend for OpenLDAP; there's a
HOWTO on this:

<http://www.samse.fr/GPL/ldap_pg/HOWTO/>

There are also ways of exporting SQL data via LDAP; see here:

<http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/378.html>
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