Howard Chu wrote: >Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: >> Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu(a)netbsd.org&gt; 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.