openLDAP question

[neilcuk at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/11/2004 10:09:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, <ByrneJB.bogus at Harte-Lyne.ca> writes:

> I am exploring LDAP on FC1 with the desire to eventually use it to 
> register mail accounts for cyrus imapd service.  I am still in the 
> "brick wall" portion of the learning curve so I have a lot of 
> unanswered questions, but I will start with one.  Why are there two 
> (2) ldap.conf files in fedora C1? One is in /etc and the other is in 
> /etc/openldap.  Neither bear any resemblance to the other and both 
> are touched when ldap is configured from the gnome app that come with 
> fedora.
> 
> I am reading the OpenLDAP 2.2 admin guide dated 25 Feb. 2004 but I 
> must say that I am not having a great deal of success.  I anyone has 
> a recipe for getting a plain vanilla openldap install 
> working that 
> they are willing to share then I would be most grateful.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Jim

Going on the RedHat Directory Services & Authentication next week...in the meantime you need to:

install openldap, openldap-servers (and probably openladap-clients)

then check out http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/172.html

neil