On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Zico <[email protected]> wrote: > What is the best way to set up an LDAP server in terms of availability and > security? I have one big server in my office and also I have rented VPS from
I would suggest you familiarize yourself with LDAP concepts (O'Reilly title on openLDAP covers the basics) before jumping into implementation. This is critical to help you plan your Directory Tree structure. openLDAP, Apache DS, 389 DS (Fedora) are some of the implementation. > one company. Should we use an existing server to host it from or acquire a > new VPS for it? Alternatively if we are going to be paying for many > commercial VPS's we might want to consider colocating one of my servers. (a) How many user entries in your Directory Server? (b) How many systems (*nix/Mac OS X) will bind with your LDAP server? (c) How many MS systems (MS Domain) will bind with your LDAP server? These are some of the questions you need to answer to engineer your LDAP server(s). To distribute the connections, I would suggest configure multiple LDAP servers (running on guest OS in Virtual Machines) with replication/sync between them. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
