Howard Chu wrote:
Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
Emmanuel Dreyfus manu@netbsd.org wrote:
Thanks for that, but we have to assume some background knowledge ;-)
Then the amount of
Hem, that one was sent too early :-)
What is the amount of assumed knowledge? It would be fair to tell what are the requirement for reading the doc and where they can be acquired...
From the Project's perspective, I think the basic requirements include: basic sysadmin skills on your target platform - you need
to be proficient
enough to operate as a superuser/Administrator without obliterating your
machine.
basic netadmin skills - if you have to deal with IP
filters, firewalls,
strange routing configurations, it's your obligation to be cognizant of
those
things. security requirements - if you're trying to implement
security, you have to
have a clear policy spec that tells you what you're trying to secure,
from whom.
basic LDAP/X.500 knowledge - you should already know what
"DIT" and "DN"
stand for, you should know what a schema looks like and what it does. You
should know the syntax and semantics of a search filter, and what all of
the
standard LDAP Request types are. You should know how an LDAP URL is structured, etc. Essentially, at least enough familiarity with everything
in
the LDAP RFCs to recognize the terminology.
Since the Project releases source code only, you should have basic
proficiency
with software development tools and procedures - how to use the basic
tools of
the trade - configure, make, cc, etc. For people using a prebuilt distro,
this
is probably not a requirement.
The above would be a perfect preamble in the "basic knowledge" section of the http://www.openldap.org web page! Follow this with a few high level site links to this kind of information will most likely eliminate some of the most basic "newbie" questions.
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