LDAP newb question?

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 13:19 -0800, Tim Alberts wrote:
> Not really a question for a fedora user list, but this is the only list
> I enjoy...
> 
> 
> First, can I use a single LDAP server to maintain two different address
> books (internal contacts / external contacts) and use it as an
> authentication system for two (or more) Linux machines? I'm trying to
> learn how to setup LDAP and I see all these tutorials for these tasks
> separately, but nothing that really says I can do it all at once with
> one server.
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tackle these things one at a time. I would say - forget the address
books for the time being - go for authentication because without
authentication, you have no access control
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> 
> Second, if the computer running the LDAP server fails in some manner is
> the database easily copied/mirrored to another server that can take
> over?  Is it as easy as copy the config and data directory to the second
> machine and turn on the server?  Or does LDAP have a built in structure
> for maintaining information among a primary/backup server?
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man slurpd (for the time being)
again, you have to learn to crawl before you can run. Start easy, slow

of course, you can always slapcat the directory into a very portable
file but slurpd is an automated method to 'replicate' a directory. New
methods are in newer versions of openldap

Craig