Re: ldap newbie again

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne@obsidian.co.za>]

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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?

Did you search with either urpmf or rpmdrake?

Hint: you can install the 'openldap-servers' package.

Hint2: 2005LE has 2.2.23

Hint3: 10.1 has 2.2.x in contrib (as openldap2.3-servers).

Regards,
Buchan

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Buchan Milne                      Senior Support Technician
Obsidian Systems                  http://www.obsidian.co.za
B.Eng          RHCE (803004789010797),LPIC-1 (LPI000074592)
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