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ChallengeSometimes an application may need to store additional data in the directory, but this may not be possible for technical or political reasons. A common case is that the directory server is outside of the administrative control of the department wanting to run the application, or it is read-only.
Allowing the application write access to the backend directory could be contradictory to a security policy, or you may simply not have the level of administrative access to the backend system to facilitate the application's requirements.
Solution
Symlabs Virtual Directory Server and LDAP Proxy support the option to store additional data attributes locally for any entry in a directory server. It does this by filtering requests and storing the additional data locally on the file system, where Virtual Directory Server is running, or optionally, in another directory server or relational database. This is fully transparent for the application: From the application's point of view, it appears as if the additional data is stored in the directory, even though Directory Manager is managing it locally.