Additional Resources - Red Hat LINUX 7.2 Reference Manual

Section 15.11:Additional Resources
The README and the migration-tools.txt files in /usr/share/openldap/migration
provide more details on how to migrate the information.

15.11 Additional Resources

A lot of useful information concerning LDAP is available. Please review these sources, especially the
OpenLDAP website and the LDAP HOWTO, before beginning to set up and configure LDAP on your
system.
15.11.1 Installed Documentation
• The ldap man page is a good place to get started for an introduction to LDAP. Also, man pages
exist for the various LDAP daemons and utilities. Please check the man pages if you need more
information on ldapmodify, ldapsearch, and the like.
• /usr/share/docs/openldap- versionnumber — Contains a general README docu-
ment and miscellaneous information.
15.11.2 Useful Websites
• http://www.openldap.org — Home of the OpenLDAP Project, the collaborative effort to develop
a "robust, commercial-grade, fully featured, and open source LDAP suite of applications and de-
velopment tools."
• http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/LDAP-HOWTO.html — LDAP Linux HOWTO
document, covering the installation through authentication and logging.
• http://www.padl.com — Developers of nss_ldap and pam_ldap, among other useful LDAP
tools.
• http://www.innosoft.com/ldapworld — Contains information concerning LDAP RFCs and LDAP
version 3 specifications.
• http://www.kingsmountain.com/ldapRoadmap.shtml — Jeff Hodges' LDAP Road Map contains
links to several useful FAQs and emerging news concerning the LDAP protocol.
• http://www.rudedog.org/auth_ldap — Home of the auth_ldap authentication module for
Apache.
• http://www.stanford.edu/~bbense/Inst.html — Discusses the use of LDAP with Sendmail.
• http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/05/wilcox — A useful look at managing groups
in LDAP.
• http://www.ldapman.org/articles — Articles that offer a good introduction to LDAP, including
methods to design an directory tree and customizing directory structures.
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