A very dumb-ed down how-to

[Joe Rhodes <lists@joerhodes.com>]

Hello everyone:

I've been clawing my way through learning OpenLDAP, and integrating it 
with Samba, Netatalk, CyrusIMAP and some other stuff.  Since I've got 
the worlds worst memory, I wrote down what I've been doing in the hopes 
that someday I'll be able to recreate it.  Now it seems almost useable, 
so I thought I'd post it on-line.

It's at  http://www.joerhodes.com/howto.html

This is targeted at those of us who are at the very early stages of 
learning all of this, and would like to implement it on small scales.

For those of us from the Directory Administrator list, I've finally 
figured out how to auto-create the user's mailboxes inside of Cyrus.  
So now adding  users via DA is really the "one stop shopping" I had 
been hoping for.

Thanks to all the people who keep sending so much great info over these 
lists.  I've learned a lot.  I still am, for that matter.

If you spot major flaws, please let me know.  I'll likely be updating 
this as I figure more stuff out.  I still consider myself to be very 
much in the early stages of learning/using OpenLDAP.  There are plenty 
of "TODO" sections left empty for the moment.  I would especially 
appreciate any comments about security that people see lacking.  I'd 
hate to be the one advertising  how to set up insecure, easily hackable 
systems.

Cheers!
-Joe

Joe Rhodes Consulting LLC.
(608) 358.0503
www.joerhodes.com