Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services, Second Edition

Chapter 23. Directory Coexistence

• Why Is Coexistence Important?

• Coexistence Techniques

• Privacy and Security Considerations

• Determining Your Coexistence Requirements

• Directory Coexistence Implementation Considerations

• Example: The ldapsync Tool: One-Way Synchronization with Join

• Directory Coexistence Checklist

• Further Reading

• Looking Ahead

The previous two chapters talked about how existing and new applications can use your directory. The focus of this chapter is directory coexistence, the task of integrating other data sources with your directory.

Integrating other data sources requires that you understand the desired relationships between the data in your directory and data maintained elsewhere, and that you create procedures and policies to correctly ...