RE: Ok, I'll show my ignorance...please help...?

[kevin@adclabs.com]

It might also help to know, that after setting it up happily, I had to
add my suffix in the Search Base - which is under the advanced part of
the settings in Outlook. In my case it was "o=AdcLabs, c=US".

Regards,

kevin@adclabs.com




On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Shawn Rutledge wrote:

> > So far I've grabbed openldap 1.2 and installed it on a redhat 5.2
> > system.  Or
> > at least it said it passed all of it's tests.  But now what???  This seems
> > silly, but even it works, what the heck do I do with it now?  Is there a
> > roadmap of how to start using the ldap server that I'm missing, because I
> > don't see simple solutions to things like how to start an ldap
> > database from
> > scratch, how to add my first entry, etc.  Everything's installed with the
> > completely unedited defaults, except for changing the "Your xxx"
> > spots in the
> > slapd.conf file.
> >
> > The manual page for ldap.conf says:
> > EXAMPLE
> >        "The SLAPD and SLURPD Administrator's Guide"  contains  an
> >        annotated example of a configuration file.
> >
> > But that guide's just from the old umich stuff, right?  I've tried half a
> 
> It's OK, it hasn't changed that much.
> 
> > dozen different guesses, based on looking at that guide, at the
> > man pages, at
> > the FAQ on how to set up the first database for the ldap RPM,
> > etc, but nothing
> > seems to work.
> 
> You seem to be at about step 7 at
> http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/doc/guides/slapd/2.html#RTFToC8.
> You need to create an ldif file and use it to create the initial database.
> >
> > My current slapd.conf is attached.  At the moment, all I can get
> > out of the
> > thing is either "Can't chase referral" or "DSA is unwilling to
> > perform", and
> > the faqs on each of those messages don't seem appropriate.
> 
> You usually have to "bind" to the database with a username/password that it
> knows about.  Initially that will be the root user defined in
> /etc/openldap/ldap.conf.  If you add new users, each user entry can have a
> "userpassword" entry under it with that user's password, and then that user
> will also be able to log in.
> 
> I would recommend the JNDI browser that comes with the JNDI distribution
> from Sun as a decent way to add stuff to the database by hand, once you get
> it basically working.  xax500 (or wax500) is the other choice but xax500
> requires motif and you have to compile it yourself (if memory serves... I
> didn't succeed...).
> 
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