Re: Oracle LDAP Question

From: Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 21:28:11 +0200
Message-ID: <d5drsj$ka3$1@news6.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>

HansF wrote:
> On Thu, 05 May 2005 07:04:52 -0700, amerar interested us by writing:
>
>

>>I have been reviewing those docs, however, it seems that LDAP is not
>>installed in our database, and, the docs do not really say which
>>scripts need to be run in order to enable this feature.......

>
>
> It's not just scripts. It's a whole environment, including front end
> servers (called oidldapd, oidrepld, etc. in *nix) that needed to be
> started up after the datsbase is started.
>
> In Oracle8i OiD was a totally independant beast - you could not have an
> Oracle8i database running both standard database stuff and LDAP stuff
> because the init parameters, the tuning, the disk layout, etc. was
> totally predefined and horribly restricted in the LDAP environment.
>

Hmmm - never noticed that. Just a separate tablespace, some tables, some procedures, and a few utilities.
Remarkably few, for that price, I might add :)

Oh - and I do have an installation and migration document, with pictures... in Dutch.

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Received on Thu May 05 2005 - 14:28:11 CDT