On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Rob Kampen<rkampen at 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.