Install Open LDAP on Mac OS X

To the Hell with proprietary Microsoft Active Directory.

REQUIREMENT: Xcode Tools installed (found on your Mac OS X install DVD)

First download The Original DarwinPorts : Open Source on Mac OS X

After install run

% sudo port -d selfupdate 

Password: 

Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/openldap

%  sudo port install openldap  

Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

---> Fetching openldap

---> Verifying checksum for openldap

---> Extracting openldap

---> Configuring openldap

---> Building openldap with target all

---> Staging openldap into destroot

---> Installing openldap

Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using openldap with these commands:

%  man openldap

%  apropos openldap

%  which openldap

%  locate openldap

sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.slapd.plist