Mastering OpenLDAP: Configuring, Securing and Integrating Directory Services

Summary

In this chapter we have taken a closer look at the tools in the OpenLDAP suite. We began by looking at the SLAPD and SLURPD servers. In particular, we looked at the major LDAP operations, such as bind, search, add, modify, and delete.

Next we created a basic directory information tree in an LDIF file. In doing this, we familiarized ourselves with LDIF—the text format for representing LDAP directory data.

From there we looked at the utilities and clients in the OpenLDAP suite. Along the way, we loaded our directory information tree from LDIF into the directory, and then added to and modified that data.

At this point you should be comfortable working with the tools included in OpenLDAP. In the next chapter we are going to return to the SLAPD ...