Re: ldap Documentation

[Alain RICHARD <alain richard equation fr>]

I have had the same problem in trying to implement it. In fact the 
documentation from redhat, LDP (two howtos) and openldap admin guide are 
pretty usefull. The main problem is the lake of some big directions to 
start with when you don't have any knowledge of ldap stuff. An other 
problem is that the schema are not very well standardized and almost all 
implementations use some custom schemes.

Some other useful resources I have found :

- ftp://kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/ldapv3.pdf
- http://www.daasi.de/staff/norbert/thesis/
- http://www.bayour.com/LDAPv3-HOWTO.html

What I recommended is to first try to understand the ldap structure and 
openldap setup, maintenance, replication.

Then you can go for the various usages :

- authentification
- unix databases sharing
- samba/netatalk authentification
- sendmail/postfix
- user directory
- PKI repository
- ...

And probably third the advanced usage :

- SASLs integration
- Kerberos integration

One of the thing that is almost not documented is pam_ldap and its usage, 
you'll have to search the various mailing lists for clues on setting it up 
correctly.

I think RedHat should invest more time on that side : both NT4 and Windows 
2K have a simple solution to share a users database and to configure and 
maintain it. This is for me the only point on with Linux as a server fails 
when comparing with a Windows NT solution. And I know you can do it (I am 
doing it), but if any engineer wanting to set it up have to spend 1-2 
months of investigation and do not have useful tools to maintain it, this 
is a big problem.

Le mercredi 23 janvier 2002, à 01:47 , Tom Diehl a écrit :

> Hi,
> Has anyone found any GOOD documentation for setting up ldap to do both
> email authentication (preferably with postfix) and regular system
> authentication. I seem to be able to get it to do the authentication
> part but I am having trouble getting things like ldapsearch and friends to
> work. So far I have not been able to find anything that explains this 
> stuff
> in terms I can understand.
>
> Suggestions??
>
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