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Re: OID vs Oracle Names Server vs TNSNAMES.ORA vs MAD

From: Stephane Faroult <sfaroult_at_roughsea.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:51:41 +0200
Message-ID: <4331B9CD.70008@roughsea.com>


Stephen,

   Actually to replace tnsnames.ora you can use about any LDAP server (it's different with single sign-on, enterprise roles and the like but finding what an alias means is a simple matter). You can even do it with OpenLDAP:

    http://home.nc.rr.com/jtlayton/oid2openldap.html

Since you already have AD, the choice of the LDAP server is already made, but you can use OpenLDAP for a proof of concept. Works quite well according to my tests.

HTH Stephane Faroult

stephen booth wrote:

>M
>IIRC ONS is deprecated so would be a bad idea to implement. I'd be
>most likely wanting to look at OID or some alternative directory. We
>do use Microsoft Active Directory, which I'm aware that Net8 can use
>as an alternative to OID. Can anyone point me to an overview of the
>issues around doing that. The main issue I can envisage coming up is
>our directories team being unwilling to let anything they don't
>control writing to the directory so anything that might assuage their
>fears would be most useful.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Stephen
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