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Hi all,
Can anyone guide me in the installation of openldap on rhel6. I don't have any prior exp: in openldap. So am badly in need of a helping hand.......
What can we 'guide you' with?? You don't say what problems (if any), you're having. Did you try Google, and look up any of the thousands of how-to guides, that tell you how to configure it?
And, since you're using RHEL, have you contacted RedHat support for help?? Since you're paying for RHEL, you do have access to their knowledegebase and support. If you're NOT paying for RHEL, you should NOT be using it, but load CentOS or Scientific linux instead, which are 99.x% identical, but FREE.
Assuming you want to install an OpenLDAP service, that part is easy:
Code:
# yum install openldap-servers
Configuring and securing slapd(8), on the other hand, is not particularly easy. I recommend reading the guides TB0ne posted above to get a feel for what you're embarking on. If you're like me (and prefer a paper book to read), get a copy of LDAP System Administration by Carter from your local bookstore or library.
OT: hey, there's scottro. Nice LDAP page, complete with command line utilities + LDIF. (You know, I recently wrote a lot of Perl utilities for searching and updating LDAP entries. I should probably do a little writeup on my LQ blog.)
Feel free to not link to it -- no hard feelings. But I wanted to whip together enough documentation to pique interest in someone who wishes to apply a robust scripting language's capabilities to directory entry management. (IMO, Net::LDAP is very slick.)
Thank you TBone. I suspect you're an LDAP master--my reasoning is that, in my experience, when someone recommends a tutorial that I found very difficult, it means that they already know the subject well enough so that they miss the gaps in the tutorial.
@anonmie, I've added your scripts in the links section of the article.
Thanks a lot.... here we are designig a data centre. We are usinng openldap for the first. got stuck at first step itself.....will post if i gt stuck again
Did you even try to look this up first? And AGAIN, if you're using RHEL, you should be calling RedHat for support, since you're paying for RHEL, right?? If you're not, you need to stop using it now, and load CentOS instead. AGAIN, if you're not paying for RHEL, you WILL NOT get updates/patches/fixes, or access to the online repositories, so you can load additional software later.
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Nice LDAP page, complete with command line utilities + LDIF. (You know, I recently wrote a lot of Perl utilities for searching and updating LDAP entries. I should probably do a little writeup on my LQ blog.)
But I wanted to whip together enough documentation to pique interest in someone who wishes to apply a robust scripting language's capabilities to directory entry management. (IMO, Net::LDAP is very slick.)
