Installing and configuring OpenLDAP:

Part I of this series on OpenLPAD concentrates on configuring a simple OpenLDAP Server.  Our goal in adopting OpenLDAP is to provide an authentication mechanism for our LAN Clients, in particular Macintosh OSX Clients, to login to the network and work with data on network shares.  Additionally, the installation of OpenLDAP will include the new backend database lmdb – OpenLDAP’s own Lighting Memory-Mapped Database to store Openldap objects. Continue reading “Openldap and Multi-Master Replication in FreeBSD – Part I: OpenLDAP”