Summary
The focus of this chapter has been on installing and configuring the OpenLDAP suite of tools. We installed OpenLDAP on an Ubuntu system, and then walked through the process of authoring a slapd.conf file. Once we had created and tested slapd.conf, we turned to the ldap.conf file, which contains settings and defaults used by the OpenLDAP clients. Finally, we used ldapsearch to request the root DSE record from the directory, verifying that we had both the client and the server configured.
In the next chapter, we will walk through the OpenLDAP utilities and client applications. In the process of doing this we will add some records to our directory.
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