OpenLDAP installation and configuration.

-


In the openLDAP installation and configuration README I followed they were asked to install the latest version of Berkely DB. At the moment I was installing it was 4.8.26 but after installing it I was unable to up the server. [ldap_sasl_bind(SIMPLE): Can't contact LDAP server (-1) ] error was appeared. Finally I found the reason and it worked for me. In the LDAP release notes it is stated that the most stable version of Berkely DB for openldap_2.4.21 is db-4.7.25. Then I install this version and reconfigure the LDAP server. It worked fine. Here are the full steps that I have followed. I installed it on top of the SSL.


Installing Berkely db-4.7.25.

Download the compatible version (for your particular LDAP version) of Berkeley DB f rom http://www.sleepycat.com/download/index.shtml

  1. gzip -d db-4.7.25.tar.gz

  2. tar xvf db-4.7.25.tar

  3. cd db-4.7.25

  4. ../dist/configure –prefix=/usr/local/

  5. make

  6. make install


Installing TSL(I install openSSL)

Download the compatible version of OpenSSL from http://www.openssl.org/source/

  1. gzip –d openssl-version.tar.gz

  2. tar xfv openssl-version.tar

  3. cd openssl-version

  4. ./config shared –openssldir=/usr/local

  5. make

  6. make install


Installating openLDAP

Download the particular version of openLDAP from http://www.openldap.org/software/download/

gzip -d openldap-version.tgz

    1. tar xfv openldap-version.tar

    2. cd openldap-version

    3. ./configure

    4. make depend

    5. make

    6. make install


Now we should be able to up and run the LDAP server successfully.

Start the server: /usr/local/libexec/slapd

NOTE: (possible error at this point) :/usr/local/libexec/slapd: error while loading sharedlibraries: libdb-4.8.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

If so enter the following command or add it to bash_profile.

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib/

Stop the server: kill -INT `cat /usr/local/var/run/slapd.pid`

To check whether the server is correctly configured and running use ldapserch as follows.

ldapsearch -x -b '' -s base '(objectclass=*)' namingContexts

Comments

Amila Silva said…
thanks this works fine
March 28, 2010 at 7:14 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

PostgreSQL bytea and oid

-
I came across with following issue when i'm trying to save the uploaded file in to the database as a byte array using hibernate, JPA 2.0  annotation with Postgre SQL. even though in this stage i'm pretty much new to Postgre SQL, It has two type of data types to represent the binary data or BLOB, since i'm using hibernate jpa annotations use the annotation @Lob to indicate the byte[] of data to persist as a binary data. @Lob   @Basic(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)  public byte[] getPicture() { return picture;  }    exception : java.sql.SQLException: ERROR: column "picture" is of type bytea but expression is of type oid   Then i understood the issue with the data types.but when the hibernate generating the table it creates the  column with data type "oid" , after removing this annotation it creates a table column with "bytea" data type. and i'm in doubt which would be the most suitable data type to use.   Then i found the difference...
Read more

Microservices Architecture with Spring Boot in 15mins

-
Image
1. Introduction Microservices is not a new term. It coined in 2005 by Dr Peter Rodgers then called micro web services based on SOAP. It became more popular since 2010. Micoservices allows us to break our large system into number of independent collaborating processes. Lets see below microservices architecture. 1.1 What is Microservices Architecture? Microservices architecture allows to avoid monolith application for large system. It provide loose coupling between collaborating processes which running independently in different environments with tight cohesion. So lets discuss it by an example as below. For example imagine an online shop with separate microservices for user-accounts, product-catalog order-processing and shopping carts. So these components are inevitably important for such a large online shopping portal. For online shopping system we could use following architectures. 1.2 Shopping system without Microservices (Monolith architecture) In this architecture we are ...
Read more

Adding MySQL datasource to JBOSS AS 7

-
Retrieve the MySQL Connector The connector can be downloaded from:  http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/ . The current version at the time of writing is 5.1.24, further sections of this guide assume that version number. Unzip the connector to your downloads folder and save the location of the main JAR in a variable which we can refer to later: Add a Module to AS 7 AS 7 uses a module system to provide isolation in class loading. We need to create a new module which contains the MySQL Connector J JAR. Move to the the AS installation directory and create the folder structure for the new module: export JBOSS_HOME =~ / Development / jboss-as-web-7.0.0.Final cd $JBOSS_HOME mkdir -p modules / com / mysql / main Copy the driver jar to the new directory and move to that directory: cp MYSQL_JAR $JBOSS_HOME / modules / com / mysql / main cd $JBOSS_HOME / modules / com / mysql / main Define the module in XML. This is the key part of the process....
Read more