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_Entries.html > > 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 121 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091119/45edfbe2/attachment-0005.vcf>