Configuring the LDAP Clients
In the last couple of sections we have focused exclusively on the SLAPD server. Now that the server is running we need to get the client configuration so that we can make test connections to the server.
Fortunately all of the OpenLDAP client programs share one common configuration file, ldap.conf, which is located in Ubuntu at /etc/ldap/ldap.conf (if you build from source, according to Appendix A, the default location for this file is /usr/local/etc/openldap/ldap.conf).
Other programs, such as those that use the OpenLDAP client libraries (like the PHP and Python LDAP APIs, may also use the ldap.conf file as a default location to retrieve basic configuration information.
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