On Friday 31 July 2009 16:12:12 Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 16:00 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote: > > > But this all would be virtually impossible without a decent > > > > knowledge of > > > > > how LDAP works and that is regardless of whether you use CentOS-DS > > > > or > > > > > OpenLDAP. > > > > > > Craig > > > > After reading Carter's book I think i've got some idea of how LDAP > > works. Just > > a pity that most books/documentation seem to be about OpenLDAP so it > > takes a > > while to convert to Centos-DS. > > ---- > I agree that Gerald Carter's book makes LDAP understandable. > > The reality is that the LDAP API is pretty much the same and you > actually use openldap-client and nss-ldap tools even with CentOS-DS. I > haven't used CentOS-DS but I have used Fedora-DS and it is built from > Fedora-DS. The difference between them is setup of schema, certificates, > ACL's/ACI's and I found once I understood OpenLDAP, that Fedora-DS was > easy enough to use with only a few questions. > > I think you might want to subscribe to > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > > Craig Allready subscribed !! Tony -- Dept. of Comp. Sci. University of Limerick.