Hi Sherman, I am also beginner ... I advise you to use this tutorial <https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-a-basic-ldap-server-on-an-ubuntu-12-04-vps> .
Regards, 2015-11-13 15:29 GMT+01:00 Sherman Lilly <[email protected]>: > I may have this totally wrong but why is there no installation > documentation that tells somebody how to setup OpenLDAP the right way. > After installing OpenLDAP you have no slapd.conf file so that direction is > not happening. If you modify any file in the slapd.d directory, startup > will complain about bad checksum. Yes I know you can regenerate the > checksum and fix that but why? I can't find any where that tells you how to > modify the base dn, rootdn, and root password without editing the files in > the slapd.d manually. Am I missing something? I have check Google, Youtube, > and other places and they all say manually edit files in slapd.d. That > can't be the right way if openldap server is complaining about doing it. > > Sherman Lilly > >
