Re: compile python-ldap on macosx

[Jens V. <je...@zo...>]

you did not quite understand. i am talking about the fact that the 
standard slapd.conf points to a database file that does not exist by 
default. (-> /var/db/openldap/network.nidb or somesuch thing).

jens


On Sunday, Oct 27, 2002, at 12:29 US/Eastern, Michael Engelhart wrote:

>> clean or not, it does not work out of the box ;)
> Huh?? We're talking about Mac OS X desktop here right?   Why does 
> having to adjust a configuration file before you run slapd considered 
> not working out of the box?  How would you have them pre-configure 
> it???  It's not any different than having to configure an email client 
> to read email from your POP account.  In my mind I would say that it 
> totally works out of the box.  All I had to do was add the following 
> to /etc/openldap/slapd.conf (making changes to work within your needs 
> ---  I also commented out the netinfo stuff because I'm not using 
> NetInfo)
>
> database ldbm
> suffix "o=mydomain.com"
> rootdn "cn=Directory Manager,o= mydomain.com"
> rootpw somepw
> directory /var/db/openldap/openldap-data/
> cachesize       1000000
> dbcachesize     10000000
> index uid,cn,sn,givenName pres,eq,sub
> sizelimit       5000
>
> -- I wouldn't expect Apple to guess for me what I wanted here :-)
>
> Then you can either set LDAP to run at startup (which has been 
> discussed here) or type /usr/libexec/slapd and you're up and running.  
>   You of course need to add the entries (either with the command line 
> ldapadd or via some GUI admin tool) you want to search on to it to 
> make it do what you want but I assume that's true of any LDAP server.
> BTW, the database you're talking about not existing with the default 
> slapd.conf is because you probably  don't have anything in your 
> netinfo setup.   Try launching slapd and then going into Netinfo and 
> adding users and see if it gets created.
>
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Sunday, October 27, 2002, at 10:39  AM, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>
>> clean or not, it does not work out of the box ;)  the slapd.conf 
>> points to a database that does not exist, at least on my own system. 
>> i assume you have to make some explicit gesture to build that 
>> database file.
>>
>> even if this database existed and some unsuspecting person started 
>> using it i wonder what kind of security hole you open by not 
>> explicitly disabling the serving of netinfo data...
>>
>> on my own system i have now switched to using the built-in OpenLDAP 
>> by adjusting the slapd.conf (and commenting out the pieces pertaining 
>> to the netinfo bridge) and use it without problems through 
>> python-ldap compiled against my self-built python 2.1.3.
>>
>> jens
>
>
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