RE: [Q] any one know ORACLE A/D connector?

From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:52:33 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.005B7DED.20030623113458@fatcity.com>

Mike
You asked the question I've been entertaining, so I was hoping you would get some good replies. From the previous postings on this subject, here are my conclusions:

Not a lot of sites are using LDAP with Oracle yet. If you have a method that works satisfactorily, you may not change immediately, especially if you don't perceive much immediate advantage over Oracle Names, for example.
If you read the Oracle documentation and don't know much about LDAP, you may assume you need to configure Oracle's LDAP and then try to keep it and AD synchronized. As I've learned more about LDAP, I believe you have phrased the question more correctly.
Getting Oracle's LDAP working seems to be easy enough, and some people have posted their success on this list.
When you want to get Microsoft-anything working with Oracle-anything, you seem to fall into a black hole of no documentation. I don't think either behemoth wants to acknowledge the other's existence.

Anyway, that is as much as I've figured out. I don't know if you need a connector or if it is just a matter of figuring out how to point Oracle to the AD LDAP interface (and I'm told AD does have one) and then figure out what information Oracle expects to find in the LDAP. I think the main impediment to LDAP at this time is a lack of understanding, which manifests itself in the form of asking the wrong questions. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable in LDAP will post.

Dennis Williams
DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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Does anyone know ORACLE A/D connector? We plan to use it work with Microsoft active directory. Does their has evaluation copy somewhere?

Thanks.

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