Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
Emmanuel Dreyfus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for that, but we have to assume some background knowledge ;-)
Then the amount of
Hem, that one was sent too early :-)
What is the amount of assumed knowledge? It would be fair to tell what
are the requirement for reading the doc and where they can be
acquired...
From the Project's perspective, I think the basic requirements include:
basic sysadmin skills on your target platform - you need to be proficient
enough to operate as a superuser/Administrator without obliterating your machine.
basic netadmin skills - if you have to deal with IP filters, firewalls,
strange routing configurations, it's your obligation to be cognizant of those
things.
security requirements - if you're trying to implement security, you have to
have a clear policy spec that tells you what you're trying to secure, from whom.
basic LDAP/X.500 knowledge - you should already know what "DIT" and "DN"
stand for, you should know what a schema looks like and what it does. You
should know the syntax and semantics of a search filter, and what all of the
standard LDAP Request types are. You should know how an LDAP URL is
structured, etc. Essentially, at least enough familiarity with everything in
the LDAP RFCs to recognize the terminology.
Since the Project releases source code only, you should have basic proficiency
with software development tools and procedures - how to use the basic tools of
the trade - configure, make, cc, etc. For people using a prebuilt distro, this
is probably not a requirement.
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-- Howard Chu
Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com
Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
