Hi Brant,
that’s right. Installing just 389-ds-base isn’t going to be enough and the scripts it comes with are less than helpful. In the Guix System overarching configuration (involving configuration files, creation of groups and user accounts, starting of daemons, etc) is done via system services. I was just about to recommend a certain service … but then realized that I never actually finished it and the (gnu services ldap) module is only provided by a file in my personal copy of the Guix repository! I’ll make finishing this a priority once I’m back from vacation this weekend. -- Ricardo