LDAP Projects

• The LDAP-NDS project, interesting integration of LDAP with Linux and other OS versions.
• Linux LDAP Development project, based on UMich source.
• The Open LDAP project is a "collaborative effort to provide a robust, commercial-grade, fully featured, and open source LDAP suite of applications and development tool".

My pet projects

I'm working on a variety of LDAP related projects, some of which are already available on the 'net. A lot of this is still work in progress, but I hope to have more stuff available for distribution soon.

• PerLDAP, the official LDAP API from Netscape and Mozilla. You can snag a copy directly from this server. We also have a project status page available, if you are interested in participating, let us know!
• High level C (and perhaps C++) API, "object oriented". I wrote this initially to make it easier to write C/LDAP clients for our time critical applications. Right now I'm in the midst of rewriting it completely, I hope to have it released in the not too distant future.
• Finish our NIS/YP import/export functionality, with support for Netscape server products (e.g. NIS aliases <-> Messaging server entries).
• Directory Server plugins, here's a short list:
  • Regular expression matcher/filter (pre-operation filter).
  • LDAP URL matcher/filter (pre-operation filter).
  • Simple auth, to make it easier to bind as user with a UID. This does work with DS-3.0, but v4.0 is easier to use.
  • Quick auth, to make easy and fast authentication as a certain user (which does not have to exist in the LDAP server). This only works in DS-4 or later.
• On my ToDo list, I'd also like to finish
  • Dynamic group expansion.
  • Perl5 (v5.005?) plugin, to write pre/post operation scripts in Perl.
  • Proxy plugin, as a backend DB plugin.
  • DNS updates, using the new update protocol and capabilities of BIND v8.
  • NIS/YP DBM updates, on the fly updates of NIS maps.