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From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com>
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On May 27, 2004, at 2:11 PM, Vince Hoffman wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 27 May 2004, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>
>> Are there any references that will step through creating an LDAP
>> database?  I have been banging my head into a wall trying to get one
>> set up...I have it at a point where the slapd will start and monitor
>> for connections, but using ldapbrower logging in as the rootdn will
>> yield errors whenever I try to add an entry.  I'm ready to try wiping
>> the database (since it's empty anyway) and try over from scratch.
>
> I was getting ready to give up with LDAP (for samba and pam_ldap)
> untill i tried phpldapadmin, worked like a dream, not sure its in ports
> yet though. ( oh and i'll recomend ldap account manager which is in 
> ports
> but only useful if you want to store posix and samba accounts under 
> ldap.)

I've sent a message to the list responding to someone else outlining 
some of the goals I hope to achieve with the LDAP server, but what 
information is your server handing out?  Just username/password for 
Win9x, or can it handle Win2k information, or...?