Re: ldap newbie again

[Sameer N Ingole <strike@proscrutiny.com>]

Hi,
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?
You need to find binary file slapd for your specific installation, which 
actually starts openldap.
If it had started openldap on boot, you can verify it using ..
# ps -A | grep slapd

As you see, it starts a process slapd.
If you have not edited slapd.conf edit it first.
It can be either in /etc or /usr/etc or /usr/local/etc depending on your 
installation layout.
You can atleast find if it exists or not..
# ls / -R | grep slapd.conf

I suggest you install Berkeley DB by sleepycat as backend for LDAP. You 
can also use gdbm or ldbm as backend.

I have openldap installation instructions here but not sure if it will 
help you as it assumes you are installing from source.
But It explains bare minimum configuration for openldap.
http://www.proscrutiny.com/howtos/OpenLDAP.html

Regards,

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Sameer N. Ingole