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Install OpenLDAP server

Install OpenLDAP server

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Install OpenLDAP server

- [Instructor] There are multiple packages necessary for a basic working LDAP server, openldap is the basic package. Openldap-clients provides client commands, and openldap-servers provides server commands. Optional packages are nss-pam-ldapd, which provides an LDAP name service that allows users to do local queries. Mod_ldap provides LDAP authentication abilities to the Apache web server. Compat-openldap provides LDAP compatibility libraries for applications that need them. Lastly, openldap-servers-sql is a loadable module to allow OpenLDAP to use relational database back-ends. Now let's install the LDAP server components in our rhhost1 VM. In a terminal, type sudo yum install -y openldap-clients openldap-servers oddjob-mkhomedir. Type in your password, if prompted. The last package, named oddjob-mkhomedir is needed to create home directories on the fly. Once OpenLDAP is installed, let's talk about command naming. Server command names start with slap. Client command names start with…

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