Hi Quanah,
On 02/22/2013 11:56 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: [snip]
Hi Patrick,
it is generally a bad idea to use Linux distro provided OpenLDAP packages for a variety of reasons.
Heh I figured that out the hard way after I could not get my cn=config setup going with the distro provided openldap 2.4.23 RPM.
The best idea is to build OpenLDAP into your own location for server & client packages, so you are isolated from the general junk shipped by the distro.
Yup that's what I have done now. The RE24 package is installed into /usr/local and everything has "24" added to its name so it's clearly distinctive and does not interfere with the distro provided openldap packages.
A good example of doing this the right way is the ltb project:
Thanks for the tip.
You can of course use their spec files for your local build. ;)
I had a look and there are quite extensive spec files for multiple packages. To prevent that I bite of more than I can chew I chose to create a simpler package and start with that. My simple setup seems to work fine now due to some much appreciated help from list members.
If I can be of further assistance with testing I'll be happy to help where my limited LDAP knowledge allows.
Regards, Patrick