Am Thu, 3 Oct 2013 22:45:41 -0500 schrieb [email protected]: > Howard, > > This is actually a format that I have use on other ldif's and they > work. I did follow you advice on the slapd.conf and got pas the > errors and hit another snag to discover that after following > instructions on createing a build and installing with no errors that > openLdap still wsa showing as installed. So I have started going > back over those instructions from the install file as well as the 2.4 > admin documentation that is out of date. The slapd.conf man pages on > the server don't even list mdb as an attribute for the database. So > reading documentation that has not been updated isn't always that > helpful.
there are database specific manual pages, slapd-hdb(5), slapd-mdb(5), slapd-ldap(5) etc. > > This is my first go at openLDAP and I am sorry that I might waste > some of your time, but the last book that written on this software > that I can find was written 7 years when some of the now deprecated > features were just in the planning stages. I quite agree, third party documentation is sparse, but most of the available documentation on ldap and openldap is mature but still valid. -Dieter -- Dieter Klünter | Systemberatung http://dkluenter.de GPG Key ID:DA147B05 53°37'09,95"N 10°08'02,42"E
