[CentOS] LDAP howto using ds-base and ds-admin and related consoles

Fri Jul 31 15:52:29 UTC 2009
Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie>

On Friday 31 July 2009 16:12:12 Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 16:00 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote:
> > > But this all would be virtually impossible without a decent
> >
> > knowledge of
> >
> > > how LDAP works and that is regardless of whether you use CentOS-DS
> >
> > or
> >
> > > OpenLDAP.
> > >
> > > Craig
> >
> > After reading Carter's book I think i've got some idea of how LDAP
> > works. Just
> > a pity that most books/documentation seem to be about OpenLDAP so it
> > takes a
> > while to convert to Centos-DS.
>
> ----
> I agree that Gerald Carter's book makes LDAP understandable.
>
> The reality is that the LDAP API is pretty much the same and you
> actually use openldap-client and nss-ldap tools even with CentOS-DS. I
> haven't used CentOS-DS but I have used Fedora-DS and it is built from
> Fedora-DS. The difference between them is setup of schema, certificates,
> ACL's/ACI's and I found once I understood OpenLDAP, that Fedora-DS was
> easy enough to use with only a few questions.
>
> I think you might want to subscribe to
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users
>
> Craig

Allready subscribed !!

Tony

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