LDAP - Getting started.... Heeelllppp!!!

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I am running Plesk 7.5 Reloaded, latest version, patched etc... On FC2.

I am trying to get a simple LDAP server running on this server. Looking at the servers file system i find reminants of what appears to be openldap. So i went to openldap.org to check out how to configure it - no point re-building if its already implimented...

in the folder - /etc/openldap i find a file ldap.conf, which was not quite what i was expecting when reading through the quick start quide on openldap.org as there should have been a slapd.conf here....

Ok - assuming that ldap.conf if the file to edit i tried a simple conf in there, I then looked for the commands to start "SLAPD" as explained in the openldap quick start and came up against a dead end...

Can someone clear this ip for me - how can i get LDAP running on this server? Do i need to configure and build my own install? I notice many referances to LDAP in the psa file system so surely it can be managed there?

A search for LDAP returns the following on my system (note i have omitted many results for calrity but this should give a good impression of the layout)-

locate slapd ->
/usr/share/man/man5/slapd-XXXX.gz

locate ldap ->
/usr/share/doc/openldap-2.1.29
/usr/share/doc/openldap-2.1.29/rfc
/usr/share/doc/openldap-2.1.29/rfc/rfcXXXX.txt
/usr/share/doc/courier-imap-3.0.3/README.ldap
/usr/share/doc/courier-imap-3.0.8/README.ldap
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.10/LDAP/ldapsync.pl
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.10/LDAP/smbldap-tools
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.10/LDAP/smbldap-tools/XXXXXXXX
/usr/share/openldap
/usr/share/openldap/ucdata
/usr/share/psa-horde/lib/Horde/Auth/ldap.php
/usr/share/psa-horde/lib/Horde/Prefs/ldap.php
/usr/share/psa-horde/lib/Horde/SessionHandler/ldap.php
/usr/share/psa-horde/scripts/ldap
/usr/share/psa-horde/scripts/ldap/horde.schema
/usr/share/psa-horde/scripts/ldap
/usr/share/psa-horde/passwd/lib/Driver/ldap.php
/usr/share/psa-horde/passwd/lib/Driver/smbldap.php
/usr/share/psa-horde/turba/scripts/ldap
/usr/share/courier-imap/configlist.ldap
/usr/lib/gnupg/gpgkeys_ldap
/usr/lib/python2.3/idlelib/XXXXXX.py
/usr/lib/libldap.so.2
/usr/lib/libuser/libuser_ldap.so
/usr/lib/libldap.so.2.0.128
/usr/lib/libldap_r.so.2
/usr/lib/libldap_r.so.2.0.128
/usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_ldap.so
/usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_auth_ldap.so
/usr/lib/jre/lib/ext/ldapsec.jar
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/ext/ldapsec.jar
/var/cache/yum/base/headers/openldap-clients-XXXXXX.i386.hdr
/var/cache/yum/base/headers/nss_ldap-0-217-1.i386.hdr
/var/cache/yum/updates-released/headers/php-ldap-XXXXXX.i386.hdr
/etc/openldap
/etc/openldap/ldap.conf
/etc/openldap

 

[mian]

looks like you only have enough to connect to LDAP ie; client libraries, not the server.

might wanna look at http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Main_Page