The following resources offer additional information on LDAP. It is
highly recommended that you review these, especially the OpenLDAP
website and the LDAP HOWTO, before configuring LDAP on your system(s).
/usr/share/docs/openldap-<versionnumber>/
directory — Contains a general README
document and miscellaneous information.
LDAP related man pages — There are a number of man pages
for the various applications and configuration files involved with
LDAP. The following is a list of some of the more important man
pages.
Client Applications
man ldapadd — Describes how
to add entries to an LDAP directory.
man ldapdelete — Describes
how to delete entries within an LDAP directory.
man ldapmodify — Describes how
to modify entries within an LDAP directory.
man ldapsearch — Describes how
to search for entries within an LDAP directory.
man ldappasswd — Describes
how to set or change the password of an LDAP user.
Server Applications
man slapd — Describes
command line options for the LDAP server.
man slurpd — Describes
command line options for the LDAP replication
server.
Administrative Applications
man slapadd — Describes
command line options used to add entries to a
slapd database.
man slapcat — Describes
command line options used to generate an LDIF file from a
slapd database.
man slapindex — Describes
command line options used to regenerate an index based
upon the contents of a slapd database.
man slappasswd — Describes
command line options used to generate user passwords for
LDAP directories.
Configuration Files
man ldap.conf — Describes the format
and options available within the configuration file for
LDAP clients.
man slapd.conf — Describes
the format and options available within the configuration
file referenced by both the LDAP server applications
(slapd and slurpd)
and the LDAP administrative tools
(slapadd, slapcat,
and slapindex).
https://www.openldap.org/
— Home of the OpenLDAP Project. This website contains a
wealth of information about configuring OpenLDAP as well as a
future roadmap and version changes.
https://www.ldapman.org/articles/
— Articles that offer a good introduction to LDAP, including
methods to design a directory tree and customizing directory
structures.
