On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Rob Kampenrkampen@kampensonline.com wrote: [snip]
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.
There's a pretty straightforward guide at HowToForge.com (search for "CentOS LDAP"). It's a little dated, but works as advertised. In a nutshell the installation requires installing the centos-ds packages (about 4), installing a Sun Java, and then populating the database. The client side is even simpler.
Linux and Windows user authentication is straightforward, with GUI based setup and editing.
The default schema I use doesn't include address, company, etc., but these are very easily added. I tested with kaddressbook and a couple other LDAP browsers without any glitches.