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Mastering OpenLDAP: Configuring, Securing and Integrating Directory Services
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Mastering OpenLDAP: Configuring, Securing and Integrating Directory Services

by Matt Butcher
August 2007
Beginner to intermediate
484 pages
11h 59m
English
Packt Publishing
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Installation

Installing is done with one additional command:

  $ sudo make install

On some versions of Linux or UNIX, instead of using sudo, you will need to switch users (su) to root and run the make install command as root: su -c ‘make install'. You will be prompted to enter the password for your account (or, if you use su instead of sudo, the root password). Once you have correctly entered the password, the necessary OpenLDAP files will be copied to subdirectories of /usr/local.

On some systems, the directories that contain local executable files (/usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin) are not included in the $PATH environment variable. As a result, simply typing an OpenLDAP command at a command line may return an error. One way to get around this ...

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