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I recently installed OpenLDAP on a server because I wanted an LDAP Server. Sadly, LDAP isn't the most accessible system in the world and I only managed to set
by zaarn 8y ago
I recently installed OpenLDAP on a server because I wanted an LDAP Server.
Sadly, LDAP isn't the most accessible system in the world and I only managed to set it up using FreeIPA, which is based no the 389 system mentioned in the article.
Most advice online around LDAP seems to amount to "ask your sysadmin", which isn't terribly useful either when I'm the sysadmin.
I hope 389DS will make LDAP a bit easier for newcomers like me.
- foepys 8y agoIf you search the internet for advice on how to install OpenLDAP, you will also get thousands of results with examples for outdated versions and configurations that will not work. It's a real headache.
- gargravarr 8y agoI built my company's LDAP infrastructure using OpenLDAP from scratch. It's redefined my pain threshold in the process! OpenLDAP is a solid piece of software, no doubt, but there's one critical problem - most of the guides are third-party because the OpenLDAP documentation has been pretty lacking for a long time, and those guides are usually from the era before the entire thing was redesigned around OLC and LDIF! Adapting the guides is beyond irritating. I'm now at the stage where I have the schema defined and I no longer want to touch it, /ever/!
- oblio 8y agoMy guess is that it's consultingware. Open Source projects with crap documentation usually are. You're meant to hire the devs as consultants. I could be wrong, but it's a common pattern.