The good document for beginner

[Angela Liang <aliang@pocketeer.com>]

Thank you Tim. This is a very good reference especially for a beginner. Thanks for
others who helped me in the past couple of days. I am new to UNIX with no knowledge of
LDAP and under extremely tight schedule.

Somehow I did not find any link to this document from OpenLDAP website. Maybe I missed
something. If really there is no link to this document, I think it will be very
helpful if put one.

Also, what is the difference between OpenLDAP with Umich LDAP? OpenLDAP is inherited
from Umich's, but what is new?

Thanks


Angela


"Timothy P. Peterman" wrote:

> Angela,
>
> I don't think you need to reinstall or anything.  By default
> port 389 will be used, but that requires root access.
> I suggest the following as a good referrence for LDAP:
>
> http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/doc/guides/
>
> Tim
>
> Angela Liang wrote:
> >
> > I believe I should specify the port (above 1024) when I do the build which
> > starting with configuration. But I don't find the information.
> >
> > I know i can specify the port when I run, but I believe I have to build the port
> > or configured the port for slapd.
> >
> > Can you give me quick information?
> >
> > I am not familiar with adminstration, nor LDAP, nor UNIX. Please bear with me.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Angela
> >
> > "Timothy P. Peterman" wrote:
> >
> > > Angela,
> > >
> > > Are you running slapd as root?  To run on the standard port 389
> > > you must run it as root.   To run slapd as a regular user you'll
> > > need to specify a high port (above 1024) with the -p option.
> > > You would then need to specify the same port for your
> > > client apps, also with the -p option for most command line
> > > clients.
> > >
> > > The -d (debug) option may also help with troubleshooting,
> > > try "-d 1" for example.
> > >
> > > > I used the command
> > > > /home/<custom_path_from_home_ldap>/ldap/libexec/slapd -f
> > > > /home/<custom_path_from_home_ldap>/ldap/etc/openldap/slapd.conf
> > > >
> > > > When I used command "ps -a" or "ps -A", I did not see slapd running? What's
> > > > wrong?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you very much for your prompt help.
> > > >
> > > > Angela
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tim Peterman - Unix & Web Server Administration
> > > Lockheed Martin GES/EIS, Moorestown, NJ
> > > mailto:timothy.p.peterman@lmco.com