Here is a great site with the definitions of most of the standardly used
schemas:
http://ldap.hklc.com/
The question is what are you really? Are you a Person, an InetOrgPerson,
or perhaps a bootableDevice?
-Lkb
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, tack wrote:
> umich grad program docs for ldap are the holy grail....those students were
> grabbed up by netscape in 96, so netscape dev site is also a gret
> reference.
>
> In general, and ldap "key" is a "Distinguished Name" consisting of the
> user's "common name (cn)" and country:
>
> cn="tack anti-gates" co="US"
>
> Optionally, people substitute organization or organizational unit for
> country. I see this as a bad practice, as those can change frequently,
> and country is a bit less volitile.
>
> Also consider doing an LDIF import. Usually, you can just create user
> data externally then import it in bulk. OR....being LDAP, you can just
> set the server to inherit the data from a higher level ldap server.
>
> tack
>
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Sach Jobb wrote:
>
> > Hola!
> >
> > Anyone have any experience with using ldap for authentication? I'm using
> > openldap and have slapd up and running okay but i'm having trouble finding
> > standards for actually creating entries. I.E. objectClass=Person versus
> > objectClass=organizationPerson and so on.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > sach
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
