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Re: HowTo to setup LDAP



2012/5/16 Luc MAIGNAN <luc.maignan@winxpert.com>:
> Le 16/05/12 09:40, Quanah Gibson-Mount a écrit :
>
>> --On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 8:15 AM +0200 Luc MAIGNAN
>> <luc.maignan@winxpert.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Le 15/05/12 19:00, Howard Chu a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> Luc MAIGNAN wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've found a lot of howto to setup openLDAP using the slapd.conf but
>>>>> none using the actual database feature.
>>>>>
>>>>> But I want to configure a freshly installed openLDAP without writing a
>>>>> slapd.conf and doing a migration on it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there somewhere a step-by-step howto to setup an openLDAP using the
>>>>> new feature (all parameters in the LDAP) ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/slapdconf2.html#Configuration%20Exam
>>>> ple
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks BUT i'm looking for a way that does NOT migrate an existing
>>> slapd.conf but configures openLDAP in the new way from scratch
>>
>>
>> Migrate an existing slapd.conf and examine the cn=config structure until
>> you are familiar with it.
>>
>> --Quanah
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Quanah Gibson-Mount
>> Sr. Member of Technical Staff
>> Zimbra, Inc
>> A Division of VMware, Inc.
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>>
> I tried to configure the cn=config structure.
>
> BUT to modify it I have to specify a valid user/password. So how can I
> specify it without setting it ? Is there a default user/password that allows
> me to modify the structure the first time ?

Hello,

we wrote a little "quickstart" to initialize the cn=config of a fresh
OpenLDAP server, see http://www.linid.org/projects/linid-om/wiki

Clément.
>