Re: Should the LDAP client and server reside on the same machine

[Alberto Alonso <alberto@ggsys.net>]

Install the client tools, but don't make the server authenticate
against LDAP (unless you need the users to have access to
that machine :-).

Alberto

On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 13:28, Jadick, Joe wrote:
> I'm setting up a small LDAP configuration with four machines; one server and
> three clients.
> 
> The environment is OpenLDAP 2.1.17, BDB 4.1.25, Red Hat Linux 8.0.
> 
> My question is:
> 
> Should I also install the LDAP client on the machine containing the server
> software or should that machine only contain the server software?
> 
> Thanx,
> Joe Jadick
> 
> 
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