[Getting a bit off-topic now...]
On Mon, 5 Nov 2018, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
There is a
damned good book on LDAP in general (I can't remember the
title, but it's a thick hard-cover)
Do you by chance know any more details? I'll dig and see if I can find
it.
This looks like it (I recognise the authors) but I would've had the first
edition, and my ex-supervisor is no longer at work:
https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Deploying-LDAP-Directory-Services/dp/0…
You may have to strip off tracking codes...
I see there's also an O'Reilly book, but it's an admin guide so presumably
basic knowledge of LDAP is required.
[...]
I think I understand that. Or at least what (little)
I know doesn't
doesn't seem to have any objection to that. I know that I would not
want to use LDAP as a general purpose relational database.
It most certainly is not; it's optimised for searching (with complex
patterns) and reading, not for writing.
-- Dave