Re: Understanding LDAP structures
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On Sunday 20 Apr 2003 9:20 pm, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 05:45, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > What this means, I guess is that its crucial to have a list of what
> > standard objectClasses are and what attributes they expose. Is there
> > such a list with reasonable friendly explanations?
>
> The "schema" are defined in various files. Under Debian, I
> believe these are under /etc/openldap/schema/, but that location
> may be wrong. `find /etc -type d -name schema` should get you
> in the right spot fairly quick.
I found the schema files ok, they are in /etc/ldap/schema - but they are not
exactly light reading:-(
I have searched the web from several directions but there is not one document
that I have been able to find that gives a summary of the objectClasses and
what they are for. I can't believe that nobody has found the need
...
> > I am slightly confused by what debian has done here. Other HOWTOs seem
> > to imply that I need keywords rootdn and rootpw in the slapd.conf file
> > but there is no such entry in mine. I did try dpkg-reconfigure to find
> > out, but I can't run it without starting again.
>
> Not running OpenLDAP on Debian anymore, so I can't comment
> on this.
I've sussed this now - only needed when you first create entries - but as soon
as you have the admin cn then you use the access control in slapd.conf by
binding to the database with the admin cn.
...
> > that, although there seems to be a mystery objectClass called top that I
That I still can't understand. Its being used all over the place but there is
never an explanation, only an instruction to use it.
- --
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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