Hi Jason,


I'm starting to think I could just listen on a port and forward the data stream verbatim to the LDAP server and to a file.

I think this is the best thing to do, i.e. use stunnel or SSH to create a secure tunnel from the 3rd party application machine, to your LDAP box on port 389. Change the address on the 3rd parties machine to point to the port you have set the tunnel to listen on, on that machine, e.g. 127.0.0.1:333.

e.g. ssh -L 333:ldap_server_ip:389 root@ldap_server_ip

For the Perl backend stuff take a look at The OpenLDAP Perl Backend.

HTH.

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In reply to Re: LDAP passthru server... by ghenry
in thread LDAP passthru server... by jfroebe

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