Re: Installing a server on Solaris 2.9

[John Kloss <jkloss@sapiens.wustl.edu>]

My compilation, installation, and configuration notes for this subject 
are at

	sapiens.wustl.edu/~sysmain/info/openldap/index.html

and should be mostly complete.  They may help.

Solaris 8 and 9 do not natively support SASL (well, not well at least).

	John Kloss.

On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 03:03 PM, Tibbetts, Ric wrote:

> All;
> Am I treading old ground? Maybe someone can point me to a "quick & 
> easy" How-To for installing OpenLDAP on Solaris 9?
>
> The problem:
> I "have" it build & installed. But during the configure phase 
> (pre-build), It complained about not finding sasl.h. All else went 
> well.
> I have slapd up & running, and was able to build out the DIT, and 
> start adding data. But I cannot authenticate from a client machine. 
> I've been trying to massage the password for the test user, but to no 
> avail.
>
> Do I "have" to install sasl?
> I've started to look at it. But it fails to build, wanting kerberos 5. 
> That is as far down the dependancy path as I've gone so far. I read a 
> couple of How-Tos on the web for installing on a solaris server, and 
> none of them mentiond sasl / kerberos 5 as requirements.
>
> If that's not the problem, then I need to look deeper into the 
> password problem. I can add users. And running "id $user" from a 
> client, returns the proper values for the user. He just cannot log in.
>
> Any help/pointers, etc., will be greatly appreciated!
>
>
> Ric

John Kloss <jkloss@sapiens.wustl.edu>
System Administrator, Database Administrator, Programmer

Gish Lab, Genome Sequencing Center
Washington University . . . in St. Louis