Tibbetts, Ric wrote on Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 05:42:14AM -0700 : > All; > Can anyone recommend a good text on LDAP? > I need to start from scratch with it, and I'm hoping to save some time > digging through a ton of useless text.
Have a look at http://www.cerritoslug.org/tutorials/qmail-ldap. The problem is that you are looking for an ldap howto, and that tutorial is about an application that kind of assumes you already know a bit about both ldap and qmail. But it's still good reading. Ric, if you already understand how a file system works, then you already understand how a directory works. 1) Access the file modules.conf. You can't be just anywhere and access it. You can only access modules.conf if you are in /etc. But you CAN access it from anywhere if you give the full path: /etc/modules.conf. The equivalent in a directory is called the DN or Designated Name. The DN is /etc/modules.conf and the Relative DN (or RDN) is modules.conf. In the case of LDAP, a good example is uid=todd,ou=People,o=mrball. Read it from right to left, just like a domain name. 2) Access the file make. This can be found anywhere just by typing make. Why? Because there's a search PATH defined that looks in several places, one of which is /usr/bin, where make is located. The equivalent in a directory is called indexes. In the directory example uid=todd,ou=People,o=mrball, I index the uid field so that it can quickly find users when I search for them. There's a lot to it, and if you can learn by doing, you get a pretty good handle on it. Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-21mdk
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