First and foremost, thanks for the responses on my LDAP question. That being said...
On Wed, May 10, 2006 10:20 am, Neil Schelly wrote: > Here's a great generic LDAP resource: http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ Simply reading the intro to this page ("LDAP for rocket scientists") made me chortle, most especially There are innumerable excellent HOWTOs scattered over the Internet which are great if you need a tactical solution to a particular problem and are happy to put up with the vaguely uncomfortable feeling that you are entirely dependent on something you don't really understand. In a word: AMEN. These people have *been* there. -Ken (who's now scurrying off to peruse the site in detail) > It's reference material as well as some overview introductory stuff, but > most of all, it's got a browseable reference of standard schemas and DNs > and all that to make it a little easier to find appropriate ones for your > needs. > > I also use phpLDAPadmin to manage LDAP and it offers a similar browseable > reference of the installed schemas in your particular setup. -N > > > On Wednesday 10 May 2006 09:39 am, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > >> I'm about to set up an LDAP install, I believe from scratch, for a >> friend's company. I've done it before, and am familiar enough with LDAP >> from a systems standpoint that I don't think I'll need help there. >> The >> part of LDAP that continues to flummox, me, however, is its >> nomenclature; for example, in the previous install I did from scratch, I >> assigned some of the values to the wrong DNs because I couldn't find any >> that seemed to fit. >> >> Is there, somewhere, a list of what things like (say) inetOrgPerson >> actually *are*? And, perhaps, a good subset of appropriate DNs for an >> install that's going to replace NIS? >> >> Thanks... >> >> >> -Ken >> >> >> P.S. Yes, I've RTFM'd, but not recently. If there's an on-line >> resource that's been updated, please point it out to me. While I >> certainly don't fear manuals, I fear re-reading them "just 'cause." >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org >> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
