OpenLDAP

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue May 16 09:04:45 MST 2006


rootdn - as defined in your slapd.conf is all powerful and can make
changes to anything. Otherwise, it all depends upon your ACL's which you
haven't shared with us.

Craig

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 08:51 -0700, Nathan England wrote:
> I have the directory working now, but I can only log in anonymously. I can
> see the Manager account in kontact address book, but I can not change
> anything, it keeps telling me anonymous modifactions aren't allowed, so I
> try to log in with the root account and the password and it just never
> does anything. I may have to recompile ldap with sasl support. I think
> that may be my problem because I am getting the Strong(er) error.
> 
> Unless I didn't setup the account right. This is only a testbed system to
> try before we move to this setup, so I'm not crazy about security at this
> point, we just want to test the directory...
> 
> nathan
> 
> > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 07:11 -0700, Nathan England wrote:
> >> All,
> >>
> >> I need a book on OpenLDAP setup and admin. For whatever reason I have
> >> not
> >> found any documentation this is clicking with me and I'm having a tough
> >> time
> >> getting my ldap work. I need to get either a book or an online document,
> >> something I can print to keep would be nice.
> >>
> >> Can you help? Recommendations? I appreciate it.
> > ----
> > The book that made it all understandable for me was LDAP System
> > Administration by Gerald Carter. Though the book is somewhat outdated,
> > it is still right on the mark for getting it down...I think it took me a
> > day or two with the book and I got it.
> > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1565924916/sr=8-1/qid=1147792230/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-1836831-3756143?%5Fencoding=UTF8
> >
> > The official documentation is very good
> >
> > OpenLDAP 2.3.x
> > http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/
> >
> > or
> > OpenLDAP 2.2.x
> > http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin22/
> >
> > but it doesn't really get into why and that's what the above mentioned
> > book does really well.
> >
> > Linux Journal had a series of LDAP articles by Mick Bauer that was very
> > good...
> >
> > http://www.linuxjournal.com/search/node/Bauer+LDAP
> >
> > Craig
> >
> 
> 
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