We are also an Openldap shop/School on SL5.0
We're running the TUV's ldap rpms with replication and it's working
perfectly.
We're using STARTTLS'd enabled Syncrepl. Apart from a few teething
problems at the beginning it's been working fine.
Faye
Roelof van der Kleij wrote:
Hi Michael,
We are an openldap shop. We use an in-house php app to manage accounts
etc. Our ldap servers run FreeBSD, but I am in the process of migrating
to Centos/SL servers.
I found the openldap server packages included in RHEL5 to be out of
date and seriously broken. Especially master-slave replication is
impossible to get running reliably. The included Berkeley db version is
a bit buggy too (the openldap package indludes it's own bdb version
separate from the older one in db4.rpm)
Also, most overlays are not included in the RHEL version.
I am now maintaining my own openldap 2.3.43 rpm's. My impression is that
RHEL is only interested in keeping the client side stable and expects
you to run RDS for the server side.
So either go FDS or start to maintain your own openldap packages.
Roelof
Michael Mansour wrote:
Hi,
This area is quite new to me so I thought I'd ask this general question.
I have a requirement where I need to setup an LDAP server and then
have a web
form available where people can fill out their details (name, address,
etc)
and have that web form effectively create an account on the LDAP server.
In terms of the LDAP facility, I have previously installed and run
OpenLDAP a
few times over the times, but never in production (just to learn it).
But I'm
after some recommendations noting the requirement above.
* Should I use OpenLDAP for this?
* Should I use Fedora Directory Server for this?
* Should I use something else for LDAP directory services?
In terms of the Web form, is there anyone that knows what I can use
here? like
a current project or current piece of software (non-commercial) that
does this?
Thanks for any tips, recommendations and advice.
Michael.
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