Alan McKay wrote:
This is the sort of thing that leaves me baffled :
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/8.1/admin/Creating_Directory_E...
It tells me the following, but does not really provide a context for me as to why I'd want to do this or how this would relate to the real-world problem I am trying to solve. I think I'm going to have to pick up a copy of the LDAP book someone mentioned a while back in another of my threads.
3.1.1. Creating a Root Entry Each time a new database is created, it is associated with the suffix that will be stored in the database. The directory entry representing that suffix is not automatically created. To create a root entry for a database:
Alan, I have Gerald Carters Book - published by O'reilly called "LDAP System Administration" It gives a bit more of the stuff you're looking for as to: why do certain things....? It is openLDAP centric, thus will need to deal with the differences. I have a plan to get my own LDAP working any day now (have installed CentOS DS on two machines - this is straight forward and works as per the wiki instructions) but not yet managed to get it playing nice. HTH Rob