Re: Newbie help - Thanks

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne@obsidian.co.za>]

Christy Mahon wrote:
> Thanks to Daniel Gleich and Kurt Zeilanga for their
> replies to my call for help the other day.
> I've got ldapadd working now but (as it always seems
> to happen) I've got two new puzzles:
> 1) The Quickstart guide says "Use your favorite editor
> and create an LDIF file that contains:..." but it
> doesn't say where to put the ldif file.

Does it matter? You are importing this data into your LDAP directory, 
after you have run ldapadd on it, it is no longer useful ...

> I assume it
> goes in the same place as ldap data. Right?

You can have it anywhere you like, on any machine that can contact your 
LDAP server.

BTW, rather than writing all your LDIF, consider using existing tools 
which will do this for you.

> 2) More generic question: When do you typically build
> your ldap server? I want to use ldap for single logon
> network authentication. Is it typically the first
> server to build in the network? or is it typically
> something you do after you've got say an NIS network
> running?

In general most people don't start this way, just because they have 
existing infrastructure. But, there's no point setting up NIS if you're 
just going to obsolete it ... if you don't have any authentication 
infrastructure, LDAP is probably one of the first few services you set 
up (maybe DNS would be a better idea for the first server - depending 
though whether you're storing DNS data in LDAP or not ...).

Regards,
Buchan

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