Ok,
I've found enough LDAP Documentation to make my eyes bleed. ;)
www.openldap.org is a good spot, as is www.ldapzone.com
thanks!
Ric
-Original Message-
From: Todd Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 12:53 PM
To: Expert (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [expert] LDAP Documentation
Tibbetts, Ric wrote on Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 05:42:14AM -0700 :
> All;
> Can anyone recommend a good text on LDAP?
> I need to start from scratch with it, and I'm hoping to save some time
> digging through a ton of useless text.
Have a look at http://www.cerritoslug.org/tutorials/qmail-ldap. The
problem is that you are looking for an ldap howto, and that tutorial is
about an application that kind of assumes you already know a bit about
both ldap and qmail. But it's still good reading.
Ric, if you already understand how a file system works, then you already
understand how a directory works.
1) Access the file modules.conf. You can't be just anywhere and access
it. You can only access modules.conf if you are in /etc. But you CAN
access it from anywhere if you give the full path: /etc/modules.conf.
The equivalent in a directory is called the DN or Designated Name. The
DN is /etc/modules.conf and the Relative DN (or RDN) is modules.conf.
In the case of LDAP, a good example is uid=todd,ou=People,o=mrball.
Read it from right to left, just like a domain name.
2) Access the file make. This can be found anywhere just by typing
make. Why? Because there's a search PATH defined that looks in several
places, one of which is /usr/bin, where make is located. The equivalent
in a directory is called indexes. In the directory example
uid=todd,ou=People,o=mrball, I index the uid field so that it can
quickly find users when I search for them.
There's a lot to it, and if you can learn by doing, you get a pretty
good handle on it.
Blue skies... Todd
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