I would like to establish an LDAP server on a CentOS server but figured I would post this in the General Technology Discussion because LDAP works on all operating systems and I am just confused on everything LDAP but know that everyone uses it.

My goal is going to be to utilize this LDAP server for authentication from web servers, switch and router login, and anything else I can find that needs to authenticate a user for access.

Could someone help me understand it better? I personally will be using OpenLDAP

know what your domain is going to be.



for example:


example.com


mywiseguys.com


etc..



make sure you configure your CentOS server to resemble that. Run the following to check

[root@usna0netweb02 ~]# hostname --fqdn


usna0netweb02.na.hosangit.com

If it's wrong, now is the time to change it.

[root@usna0netweb02 ~]# nano /etc/hosts


[root@usna0netweb02 ~]# system-config-network
Here is where I change the domain to .lab.mywiseguys.com


[root@usna0netweb02 ~]# service network restart


Shutting down interface eth0:


Shutting down loopback interface:


Bringing up loopback interface:


Bringing up interface eth0:


[root@usna0netweb02 ~]# hostname --fqdn


usna0netweb02.lab.mywiseguys.com

Now you have everything setup, go ahead and install openldap (for me it was a matter of running yum search openldap and seeing the three applications you need. openldap, openldap-servers, openldap-clients)



After everything is installed comes the configuration portion of LDAP which I will add as another post since I have to run right now.