Configuring OpenLDAP server on CentoS 6
Introduction
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is commonly used for managing users and groups for authentication purposes, or for system configuration information. It can also serve as a virtual phone directory and address book, allowing users to access information about other users in the directory.
CentoS 6.2 ships with OpenLDAP 2.4.23 which contains the cn=config Directory Information Tree (DIT) that is used to dynamically configure the slapd daemon. This allows modification of schema definitions, indexes, ACLs, etc without stopping the service.
The goal in this post is to configure OpenLDAP so that it can be used for user authentication. For simplicity, the Samba file sharing configuration and user migration will be handled in separate posts.
Linux Based Server for Home
With all the time I put into Linux for work purposes, I am thinking what it would be like to put the same amount of effort and reasoning into a server for the house. this would be a server that would go beyond the IPCop firewall that we have running there now.
- IPCop does a great job and is very reliable, but the project seems to have been in an infinite development loop for the last couple of years… but I found that ipfire is maintained and does more than ipcop ever did. The only thing I don’t like about these two is the blue network part. I wish we could do multiple green networks.
Centos Linux Install Guide
well, not quite,….
The first thing you do is decide which way you are going to install it and download everything needed for that method.
Personally, I have the server at the shop that I use for the whole thing, I always use a boot disk and an ftp server because as long as I can get it to connect to my network, I don’t have to worry about and media at all,… because everything needed is on my there.
Whatever the case, make your choices,…. look,…. you can customize later,… add / subtract or whatever using rpm or yum. It is up to you
