On Jul 30, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Rob Kampen wrote:
Hi, I have previously used openLDAP and read many of their howto documents for establishing an LDAP server. RH and CentOS provide <brand>-ds-base and related rpms and I like what I see and read about the product. I found the wiki article on installing the rpms and getting it running on a server - so far so good. Then I fall into a big hole. What are the key items that need to be put in place to actually make it useful for my domain? Is there a document somewhere for those of us that want to bridge from openLDAP to the RH based product? I have read many hundreds of pages, have purchased O'reilly's LDAP System Administration but cannot seem to get my dirsrv based LDAP to function. I do understand that ds uses LDIF files to store and set things up, but seem unable to grasp the arcane entries that need to exist so I can access it with a basic LDAP client to load my users etc. Also I guess there are certain schemas that need to be used to allow basic functions to work. My wish list: linux user authentication and authorization windows user authentication and authorization (via samba?) customer contact list (name, address, company, phone numbers, email addresses)
- this last one to be used by Thunderbird and my SIP phone system -
both of which profess to speak LDAP I'm sure there are many small business folk that would like something like this, however I cannot find a template with all my searches, so for those of you with better LDAP and or google skills
- please point me in the right direction.
Thanks Rob
Hi Rob,
The documentation for the 389 Directory Server (née Fedora Directory Server) may answer a lot of your questions. Since Red Hat Directory Server (and therefore CentOS Directory Server) is based on its code, I think you'll find much of its documentation applicable.
http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation
Among other things, you should find pages on the linked site which talk about authentication, migration from OpenLDAP, Samba, etc.
Regards,
James