Fedora Core4 OpenLdap server How-to

1. Using Yum if you have Fedora Core 4. Letting yum to care for the rpm pakages dempendencies

1. Then install open-ldap-servers

1. When installed , Next you should find where the ldap config lives.

1. Modify as follows :

suffix "dc=myname,dc=com,dc=edu,dc=cn"
rootdn "cn=Manager,dc=myname,dc=com,dc=edu,dc=cn"
rootpw mypasswd
directory /usr/local/var/openldap-data

1. Ok, done , you can start your openldap server with command below

root> slapd

   1, Verify :

 ldapsearch -X -b '' -s base '(objectclass=*)' namingContexts

 2,you shall see:
   <dsml xmlns:dsml="http://www.dsml.org/DSML">
 <directory-entries>
  <entry dn="">
   <attr name="namingContexts">
    <value>dc=myname,dc=com,dc=edu,dc=cn</value>
   </attr>
  </entry>
 </directory-entries>
</dsml>