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LPI exam 301 prep, Topic 302: Installation and development

Senior Level Linux Professional (LPIC-3)

Sean Walberg, Network engineer, 自由职业者

Sean Walberg has been working with Linux and UNIX since 1994 in academic, corporate, and Internet service provider environments. He has written extensively about systems administration over the past several years.

Summary: In this tutorial, Sean Walberg helps you prepare to take the Linux Professional Institute® Senior Level Linux Professional (LPIC-3) exam. In this second in a series of six tutorials, Sean walks you through installing and configuring a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server, and writing some Perl scripts to access the data. By the end of this tutorial, you'll know about LDAP server installation, configuration, and programming.

Date: 04 Dec 2007
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (77 KB | 23 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Review the previous tutorial in this 301 series, "LPI exam 301 prep, Topic 301: Concepts, architecture, and design" (developerWorks, October 2007).
Take the developerWorks tutorial "Linux Installation and Package Management" (developerWorks, September 2005) to brush up on your package management commands.
Review the entire LPI exam prep tutorial series on developerWorks to learn Linux fundamentals and prepare for system administrator certification.
At the LPIC Program, find task lists, sample questions, and detailed objectives for the three levels of the Linux Professional Institute's Linux system administration certification.
Find answers to What is a backend? and What is a database? in the OpenLDAP FAQ.
Learn more about building overlays in the developer's documentation. Overlays are a complex but powerful concept.
Consult the OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide if the manpages for slapd.conf or your particular backend don't help. You might also find the OpenLDAP FAQ to be helpful.
The online book LDAP for Rocket Scientists is excellent, despite being a work in progress.
The Perl-LDAP page has lots of documentation and advice on using Net::LDAP.
In the developerWorks Linux zone, find more resources for Linux developers, and scan our most popular articles and tutorials.
See all Linux tips and Linux tutorials on developerWorks.
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Get products and technologies

Download OpenLDAP.
The IBM Tivoli Directory Server is a competing LDAP server that integrates well with other IBM products.
phpLDAPadmin is a Web-based LDAP administration tool. If the GUI is more your style, Luma is a good one to look at.
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