<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br>On May 18, 2010, at 01:10 PM, Raymond Norton wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">These are the tutorials that got me up and running. Follow step by step, replacing example information with your own. I tabbed between tutorials to get things set up. I only focused on getting an ldap address book working for now, but ultimately need it for user authentication via a radius server.<br><br><a href="http://beginlinux.com/server_training/server-managment-topics/1016-ldap-server-on-ubuntu-804">http://beginlinux.com/server_training/server-managment-topics/1016-ldap-server-on-ubuntu-804</a><br><br></blockquote><br><div>Unfortunately, the instructions do not follow my experience.</div><div><br></div><div>The <b><i>apt-get install slapd ldap-utils</i></b> does not prompt for ah administrator password.</div><div>The <b>/etc/ldap/slapd.conf</b> is not created, because it is using the <b>/etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn=config</b> approach. I have not been able to find any help on the web for this approach.</div><div><br></div><div>I am looking for just a standard configuration. The instructions to configure the eXist XML database are at <a href="http://exist-db.org/ldap-security.html">http://exist-db.org/ldap-security.html</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>I do not care how I get to a working configuration, but I do need to get one working. It seems that the OOTB with <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; ">apt-get install slapd ldap-utils</span> is missing some steps. Everything else that I have installed through apt-get has been a perfect install. Why is LDAP still such an arcane art?</div><div><br></div></body></html>