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DAP website and the LDAP HOWTO, before configuring LDAP on your system.
19.11.1. Installed Documentation
• The ldap man page is a good place to get started for an introduction to LDAP. Also, man pages
exist for the various LDAP daemons and utilities. Please check the man pages if you need more
information on ldapmodify, ldapsearch, and the like.
• /usr/share/docs/openldap-versionnumber — Contains a general README document and
miscellaneous information.
19.11.2. Useful Websites
• http://www.openldap.org — Home of the OpenLDAP Project, the collaborative effort to develop a
"robust, commercial-grade, fully featured, and open source LDAP suite of applications and devel-
opment tools."
• http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/LDAP-HOWTO.html — LDAP Linux HOWTO
document, covering the installation through authentication and logging.
• http://www.padl.com — Developers of nss_ldap and pam_ldap, among other useful LDAP tools.
• http://www.innosoft.com/ldapworld — Contains information concerning LDAP RFCs and LDAP
version 3 specifications.
• http://www.kingsmountain.com/ldapRoadmap.shtml — Jeff Hodges’ LDAP Road Map contains
links to several useful FAQs and emerging news concerning the LDAP protocol.
• http://www.rudedog.org/auth_ldap — Home of the auth_ldap authentication module for Apache.
• http://www.stanford.edu/~bbense/Inst.html — Discusses the use of LDAP with Sendmail.
• http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/05/wilcox — A useful look at managing groups in
LDAP.
• http://www.ldapman.org/articles — Articles that offer a good introduction to LDAP, including
methods to design an directory tree and customizing directory structures.
19.11.3. Related Books
• Implementing LDAP by Mark Wilcox; Wrox Press, Inc.
• Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services by Tim Howes et al.; Macmillan Technical
Publishing
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