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.


>-- 

>   -- Howard Chu

>   Chief Architect, Symas Corp.  http://www.symas.com

>   Director, Highland Sun        http://highlandsun.com/hyc/

>   Chief Architect, OpenLDAP     http://www.openldap.org/project/