LDAP HOWTO

[daeghrefn]

Alrighty, my friend and I are having a hell of a time getting LDAP set up. Our goal is to have 2 LDAP servers that can talk, and serve our individual networks.

We've followed the Gentoo LDAP HowTo, but as I think everyone knows, it's so out of date it doesn't work anymore. I've searched these forums and others and the net, but I can't seem to find anything that isn't basicaly a verbatim copy of the man pages. I have a hard time understanding them, and need something more idiot-proof.

Do any of you have any links (besides tldp.org's howtos) that would be useful (also not openldap.org). Or is there a way to update the Gentoo HowTo so that other's can set this up? I really like Gentoo's howto structure in all honesty.

Any advice, suggestions, etc. are welcome. And we aren't planning on integrating samba, either. Which seems to be the rest of the LDAP related posts.

Thanks in advance.

[Petyr]

What exactly do you mean by "talk" to each other?
Did you want to create a distributed directory, or a replicated one? Ultimatly most of the steps are the same, just a few config lines are a bit different.
Also did you want to use SASL, kerberos, SSL etc etc etc?

I'd say, get one of them working first. Then get the other one working independantly, then tell them about the existance of the other. Then setup SSL, and certificate verification (means you're running your own Certificate Authority, sorta). I personally avoid SASL and kerberos because they're confusing, and a massive pain to setup. I'm also not sure how much added security they bring either...


Regards,
Petyr