Re: Resources/Documentation for Redhat 9 and LDAP Auth

[Terrence Martin <tmartin@physics.ucsd.edu>]

Well the thing is I do not like tarballs, makes things messy. However I 
am more than capable of making my own RPMS and SPEC files and had 
already built my own from an admittedly older version of openldap.

I am downloading the rawhide src rpm of openldap. 2.1.22 which I 
believe is the latest version. I will work from that. Any gotchas here?

Terrence



Brian K. Jones wrote:
> Probably the best thing to be said about contemplating a production
> OpenLDAP deployment using the RedHat-supplied packages is this:
>
> DON'T.
>
> The versions are outdated, and you haven't a clue as to whether or not
> your implementation will do what you want, and if it does, you don't
> know what extra niceties might be built in to sacrifice security or
> stability. If you look at the source rpm's, and do some general reading
> on openldap, you're likely to come to this conclusion yourself. 
>
> Glad I could save you some time ;-)
> brian.
>
> On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:11, Terrence Martin wrote:
>
> > Are there any resources out there for assisting in the deployment of 
> > OpenLDAP using the Redhat based packages?
> >
> > I have found several howtos on LDAP in general and some integration, but 
> > a lot of them spend time on compilation and less on the configuration 
> > specifically.
> >
> > Terrence