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. :-)
best regards
Sonny