Data Handling In The Ldap Directory - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION Installation Manual

The YaST runlevel editor, described in Section 20.2.3, "Configuring System Services
(Runlevel) with YaST" (page 400), can be used to have the server started and stopped
automatically on boot and halt of the system. It is also possible to create the correspond-
ing links to the start and stop scripts with the insserv command from a command
prompt as described in Section 20.2.2, "Init Scripts" (page 396).
36.4 Data Handling in the LDAP
Directory
OpenLDAP offers a series of tools for the administration of data in the LDAP directory.
The four most important tools for adding to, deleting from, searching through, and
modifying the data stock are briefly explained below.
36.4.1 Inserting Data into an LDAP Directory
Once the configuration of your LDAP server in /etc/openldap/slapd.conf is
correct and ready to go (it features appropriate entries for suffix, directory,
rootdn, rootpw, and index), proceed to entering records. OpenLDAP offers the
ldapadd command for this task. If possible, add the objects to the database in bundles
for practical reasons. LDAP is able to process the LDIF format (LDAP data interchange
format) for this. An LDIF file is a simple text file that can contain an arbitrary number
of attribute and value pairs. Refer to the schema files declared in slapd.conf for
the available object classes and attributes. The LDIF file for creating a rough framework
for the example in Figure 36.1, "Structure of an LDAP Directory" (page 670) would
look like that in Example 36.7, "Example for an LDIF File" (page 680).
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