Hello,
Is there anything like database migrations but for LDAP schemas?
Hello,
Is there anything like database migrations but for LDAP schemas?
Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
Hello,
Is there anything like database migrations but for LDAP schemas?
That’s an interesting question. Are you trying to aggregate several
directories? Or are you trying to create an auth/az database by sucking
data out of an LDAP directory?
On Monday 14 August 2006 21:06, Francis C. wrote:
Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
Hello,
Is there anything like database migrations but for LDAP schemas?
That’s an interesting question. Are you trying to aggregate several
directories? Or are you trying to create an auth/az database by sucking
data out of an LDAP directory?
Actually I was not thinking about merging directoris or sucking data our
of
another LDAP directory, but classic schema changes. Imagine each unit in
your
organization had its own IT people:
Organization
|
------------
| |
Sales R+D
| |
IT_A IT_B
Now we decide it will be in everyone’s interest to have a central IT
unit
instead of departamental IT teams:
Organization
|
-----------------------------
| | |
Sales R+D IT
It would be nice to achive such a schema manipulation with migrations.
Of
course, we would need to define how to overcome name clashes,
re-assignments
of people, etc (the classic problems of these kind of reorganization).
This needs not to be a Rails-only feature. I think any Ruby application
might
need such a feature.
Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
Actually I was not thinking about merging directoris or sucking data our
of
another LDAP directory, but classic schema changes.
My reaction is that wholesale directory-tree reorganizations like this
have such a large impact on every application that depends on the
directory, that most companies would undertake something like this with
great trepidation, and far above the level of any individual Ruby
program.
But maybe I’m wrong. Anyone have a contrary opinion?
Or are you talking about being able to create something like a “view” on
directory data by transforming it on the fly?
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