On Thursday 30 July 2009 19:23:24 Kwan Lowe wrote: > 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. > I'm going through the same process as Rob ( the OP ) at the moment. I want to setup centos-directory server. initially I want it to replace a NIS and Samba system with about 1200 existing users. > 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. Installing centos-ds is not a problem. It's what you do after it. Especially for people like me who have no experience with OpenLDAP. > > Linux and Windows user authentication is straightforward, with GUI > based setup and editing. > With 1200 existing users to be migrated then GUI based setup and editing is not very useful. > 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. I'm going through the Howto:Samba from <directory.fedoraproject.org> at the moment and hopefully that will get me started. But what would be nice is: 1. Howto:migtate existing NIS to CentosDS 2. Howto:migrate existing Samba to CentosDS Regards, Tony > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Dept. of Comp. Sci. University of Limerick.