Testing LDAP related software

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

there is a new sssd team forming, and I'd like the OpenLDAP team to know 
about that. I don't have too much clue about LDAP in practice as well, 
and most prominently, I don't run an LDAP environment where I could test 
new versions of sssd before uploading.

I would have to build myself an OpenLDAP server and pre-fill it with 
some test accounts that could be used for easy testing. I am wondering 
whether it would be a smart idea to just put that server on a dedicated, 
throwaway VM (with ansible recipies to easily redeploy) (with LDAP and 
LDAPS) and to publish a read-only LDAP account and the relevant data of 
the directory contents (passwords etc).

That way, everybody working on sssd and other LDAP-related software 
could easily use that server as a reference server to test their 
software without having to deploy their own server.

What do you think about this?

Greetings
Marc

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