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Itay Moav -Malimovka
Asked: 2010-01-02 13:12:48 +0800 CST

how to configure open ldap to work on localhost

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From the documentation:

Use your favorite editor to edit the provided slapd.conf(5) example (usually installed as /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf) to contain a BDB database definition of the form:

  database bdb
  suffix "dc=<MY-DOMAIN>,dc=<COM>"
  rootdn "cn=Manager,dc=<MY-DOMAIN>,dc=<COM>"
  rootpw secret
  directory /usr/local/var/openldap-data

But, my domain is either 127.0.1.1 or localhost,
What should I put instead of MY-DOMAIN and in COM ?

configuration

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  1. Best Answer

    You can put whatever you want. Suffix has nothing to do with what IPs/interfaces slapd listens on. Suffix is the top level of the data tree, it doesn't have to be DNS/network names. Think of it as your database name. So while you could use:

    suffix "dc=localhost,dc=localdomain"

    or

    suffix "dc=example,dc=com"

    you could also use:

    suffix "dc=my,dc=ldap"

    You can have more than two parts if you want

    suffix "dc=my,dc=ldap,dc=server"

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