Re: ldap newbie again

[Hardik Dalwadi <hardik@deeproot.co.in>]

Hello payal,

It's very nice that u want to jump again in OpenLdap.
Best way to start OpenLdap as a stand alone is to compile it manually
from source.
Get the source from OpenLdap.org
<http://www.openldap.org/software/download/>
untar it in some good location like /usr/local/src
Go in to /usr/local/src/openldap-2.2.26 and run below command.
<This is my settings>
mkdir /var/ldap
mkdir /var/ldap/sbin
./configure --prefix=/var/ldap \
           --libexecdir=/var/ldap/sbin \
           --with-tls --enable-aci \
           --enable-modules --enable-slapi \
           --enable-slp --disable-bdb \
           --enable-ldbm --with-ldbm-api=gdbm \
           --enable-dgngroup --enable-proxy-cache \
           --enable-crypt


You need some extra packages for that, i think u can download it from net.

Then<makedep && make && make install && make test>
If make test run successfully then your open ldap is running successfully.
Now u can find slapd.conf in /var/ldap/etc/openldap/

Change in
database "ldbm"
suffix  "yourdomain.com"
rootdn "cn=admin,ou=people,dc=yourdomain,dc=com"
rootpw admin

Now go to  /var/ldap/sbin/

./slapd -d1


You can see junk of log and at last line slapd starting.
That's it enjoy...

Best doc for OpenLdap is
<http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/quickstart.html>
<http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/>

If you have any Q? regarding this revert me back.


Payal Rathod wrote:

> Hi,
> After my last unsuccessful try and many months of sulking I am trying
> LDAP again on a stand alone machine with Mandrakelinux release 10.1 
> (Official)  on AMD 2600+ XP machine.
> I am very very new to Ldap and after my last trust with it am lacking in 
> confidence on ldap. Can someone suggest how do I start with it? I have 
> no specific requirement but a shared address book would be a nice idea.  
> How do I start with it?  I have installed,
> # rpm -qa | grep ldap
> openldap-2.1.30-3mdk
> libldap2-2.1.30-3mdk
> openldap-clients-2.1.30-3mdk
> nss_ldap-220-3mdk
> pam_ldap-170-3mdk
> perl-ldap-0.31-2mdk
>
> There is no ldap binary I can find or a slapd.conf file.
> Please tolerate these questions and suggest where do I start?
>
> With warm regards,
> -Payal
>  
With Cheers,
Hardik Dalwadi.