On 02/19/14 18:29 +0100, Sonny Taberman wrote:
Hi all ldap people. I have been trying this new way of configuring a slapd server from scratch. Sorry to say total failure on my side. I'm not sure where to begin. I have built a linux system from LFS Linux from scratch. So I want to install openldap from source, so far no problems. When my installation is done i have a directory in /etc/ named openldap and the content inside is this:
DB_CONFIG.example ldap.conf ldap.conf.default schema slapd.conf slapd.conf.default slapd.ldif slapd.ldif.default
To start configure my slapd using slapd.conf there is no problem. Actually I'm beginning to think I'm pretty good att this. :-) But then I try to read all I can find about configure a new slapd using slapd.ldif, not that easy. I understand that I need a new directory named slapd.d. After that I have no clue. I guess something is hardcoded in slapd but what am I supposed to do next? How can i communicate with slapd ? I guess I have to define a password somewhere for a manager or administrator but how and where? Is there a tutorial somwhere ? All I need is how to start. :-)
See slapd(8), slaptest(5), slapd-config(5), ldap.conf(5), and chapter 5 of the OpenLDAP Software 2.4 Administrator's Guide.
In short:
mkdir <path/to>/slapd.d chown user.group <path/to>/slapd.d chmod ? <path/to>/slapd.d # and assuming you want to bootstrap using a slapd.conf: slaptest -f <path/to>slapd.conf -F <path/to>/slapd.d
Create an init script that starts slapd with appropriate options, e.g.:
/usr/sbin/slapd -h "ldap:/// ldapi:///" -g openldap -u openldap -F /etc/ldap/slapd.d
It is not recommended to modify files underneath <path/to>/slapd.conf with a text editor, which you may be tempted to do. Use ldapadd/ldapmodify to make modifications, or use slapcat -n0 to create a portable representation of your config.
Search for documentation or discussion of SASL EXTERNAL authentication over ldapi:/// (using olcAuthzRegexp), to perform administrator (rootDN) changes.