Lesson 7. Hosting OpenLDAP

Time

This lesson takes approximately 2 hours to complete.

Goals

Understand the four roles of an Open Directory server and its functionality in standalone and Master mode

Identify the OpenLDAP primary configuration files

Use Server Admin to configure the maximum number of results returned by an Open Directory server

Configure Mac OS X Server to host an LDAP directory domain

Use the slapd process tools to manipulate data stored in the LDAP database on a Mac OS X Server computer

Use Open Directory’s Archive and Restore features on Mac OS X Server to back up and restore an Open Directory server

Secure Open Directory connections between Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server

Using Open Directory services on Mac OS X Server ...

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