This question is best suited towards the community behind the LDAP libraries or the LDAP authentication module you are speaking about.
However, it's a pretty easy guess you are speaking about OpenLDAP, which is distributed as a single tarball of code for the libraries, command line tools, and server. There's no way around that unless you find another distribution, perhaps via another source, which I wouldn't recommend. It's always best to deal with primary sources or mirrors and be sure to check the signatures on anything you download. You've got nothing to worry about: building and installing OpenLDAP *does not* run the LDAP server. You (or someone on the system with administrative privileges) would need to initiate starting the server. You can also delete the server binaries and configuration if you wish, but it's simplest to never run any of the LDAP server start up scripts. I recommend reading the OpenLDAP administrator handbook to learn more about what files constitute the server, startup, and configuration rather than ask further here. Cheers, --Mark Mark Lavi, Enterprise Web Management Team @ SGI mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] || phone:+1-650-933-7707 ________________________________ From: Malka Cymbalista [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 2:30 AM To: users@httpd.apache.org; modperl@perl.apache.org Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mod_auth_ldap I am running Apache 2.0.55 with mod_perl 2.0.1 and Perl 5.8.1 on a Sun Solaris machine. We would like to do http authentication via our ldap server so we need to install mod_auth_ldap. The instrictions I found for installing mod_auth_ldap (http://www.muquit.com/muquit/software/mod_auth_ldap/mod_auth_ldap_apach e2.html) say that before compiling and installing mod_auth_ldap, we need to complile and install LDAP libraries. The instructions for installing ldap libraries seem to force me to also install an ldap server. I do not want to install an ldap server since we already have a working ldap server. I want to use our existing ldap server to do httpd authentication on our web server. Is there a way to install only the ldap libraries? Thanks for any help. Malka Cymbalista Webmaster, Weizmann Institute of Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08-934-3036
