Re: Newbie question / defining directory values

[Adam Williams <adam@morrison-ind.com>]

>I don't understand how to define what values I want to keep track of.

Schema.  This has little/nothing to do with the contents of slapd.conf but
with the schema files you include

>In LDAP, I want to have records for Password, city, state, zip, etc.  I'm

You shouldn't need to define anything custom for these.  "Standard"
schemas exist that include these.

>unsure of where/how in slapd.conf this goes.. my attempts to try to figure
>it so far have led to slapd not starting each time I make a change, as I'm
>not doing it correctly.. can someone help me out or post a sample slapd.conf
>file with custom fields and such?

See the schema section of ftp://kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/ldapv3.pdf

You can't define custom schema without getting an OID from IANA.

Don't overlook the many standard schemas that already exist.