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Old 04-15-2008, 10:41 PM
Albe Laurenz
 
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Default Re: [GENERAL] LDAP service lookup

Dawid Kuroczko wrote:
> [...] and it also would be valuable to
> add into pg_service.conf.sample an example ldap:// stanza, so if
> person opens the file, she will be enlightened.


I like that idea.

> And a missing feature. Or rather treat it as feature request. :-)
> A "wildcard entry". I would like to set my environment that,
> on each client I would put pg_service.conf having two and only
> two LDAP servers in it (second one for failover. I think the entry
> might look like:
> ### wildcard entry:
> [%] # or[*] ?
>

ldap://ldap1.mycompany.com/dc=mycompany,dc=com?uniqueMember?one?(cn=%s)
>

ldap://ldap2.mycompany.com/dc=mycompany,dc=com?uniqueMember?one?(cn=%s)
>
> Which, when given:
> psql "service = foobarbaz"
> ..would query ...?(cn=foobarbaz)


This is also worth thinking about ... it would make the code and
the pg_service.conf file more complicated, but would definitely be
useful
if you only use the service file for LDAP lookup.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe



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