Using LDAP Client Software With the Oak LDAP Service

9.1. Synchronisation to SQL Database

Christopher Hoskin (St Antony's College) has developed some Ruby code to synchronise a local database with unit data in Oak LDAP. As with other examples, this will need access to a suitable Kerberos credentials cache so would typically be run under k5start. Heavily trimmed example code:

# main.rb
# Extremely trimmed example to retrieve and print attributes of a person entry
#
# Supplied by Christopher Hoskin, St Antony's College, 22nd July 2010

require 'ldap'

conn = LDAP::SSLConn.new(host='ldap.oak.ox.ac.uk', port=636)
conn.sasl_quiet=true
conn.sasl_bind('','')

conn.search('ou=people,dc=oak,dc=ox,dc=ac,dc=uk', LDAP::LDAP_SCOPE_ONELEVEL, "(sn=Howes)", nil) { |entry|
    entry.to_hash.each { |key, value| puts "%s : %s" % [key, value[0]]}
}

conn.unbind