OpenLDAP

OpenLDAP

The Qube has OpenLDAP installed on it.

I have set up a del.icio.us tag=ldap to record the usefull links. Obviously a start point is http://www.openldap.org/, which has a bunch of definitive manual resources.

Unlike some of the RDBMS's the directory arrives empty, although the user installation process has installed some entries.

How do I install a global administration user? Do i need one?

The usual tools work for start and stop and ldapsearch works from the command line. The Thunderbird address book can read entries in the directory but not drag & drop to the directory.

The OpenLDAP FAQ-o-matic has an addressbook tutorial that deals with both the permissions and LDIF updates required to get an addressbook working.

The browser with ldap://${hostname} finds the server but can't query the database, it find no matches.

Interestingly the `domainname` is not set, is there a reason for this.

Putting things right

Firstly we need to enable channel 4 on the syslogd. This involves editing /etc/syslogd.conf

local4.*       /var/log/slapd.log

then insert a

loglevel             -1