5 Nov
2018
5 Nov
'18
8:58 p.m.
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
[...]
I've used OpenLDAP in a previous job for many years, for all sorts of
things, and it worked well. I had it integrated with Sendmail and even
Kerberos, but I've forgotten the details now.
There is a damned good book on LDAP in general (I can't remember the
title, but it's a thick hard-cover) so read it, cover to cover. Then
download the OpenLDAP source (or used a trusted binary) and read the
documentation, esp. the quick start guide and the admin guide.
Then read them again :-)
The most important thing about learning LDAP is forgetting everything you
ever knew about relational databases; LDAP is a *directory*, not a
database, and the idiots at work were constantly referring to records, not
*entries*, which drove me crazy (I have a Unify RDBMS background too).
And if/when you start using OpenLDAP, always keep it up to date; there is
an active mailing list, but the first thing they'll ask is "What version
are you running?". Sure, there's been some lemon releases, but in general
it worked fine for us; the company's balls depended upon it.
-- Dave
And I know
very little about LDAP.
I know very little. But it's enough to know that I think learning more
and / or dealing with it is going to be annoying.