CentOS 6 and 389 Directory Server - Discuss

7 Feb 2019


      I'm not sure it this is the correct location to ask these questions, but ...
In the past when I worked for a living the place where I worked had 
thousands of RHEL Linux servers on various hardware, but the access was 
controlled by Windows Active Directory and a third party piece of 
software that was the middle-man between the 2.
Now that I no longer work I'm trying to build a CentOS Linux environment 
where the access is controlled by 389-Directory Server. But I have no 
practical experience with 389-Directory Server (Question 1) so I'm 
looking for a tutorial or 'How To' to put information into 389-DS from a 
machine that is currently running? (Question 2) Can I export the 389-DS 
database to a LDIF file, migrate my machine from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7 by 
doing a fresh CentOS 7 install. Install 389-DS and import the just 
created LDIF file?  I want to use 389-DS (or OpenLDAP) because as my 
environment grows defining everything locally is becoming hard to be exact.
Any comments will be helpful
TIA
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Eugene Poole
Woodstock, Georgia