Mastering OpenLDAP

Creating Directory Data

In the previous section we looked at the two LDAP daemons, SLAPD and SLURPD. But though we have a directory running already, we do not have any entries in our directory (other than the ones that are created by SLAPD, such as schema records and the root DSE).

In this section we will create a file for holding our LDAP data, and we will devise some directory entries to go in this file. In the next section we will load the data into the directory.

The LDIF File Format

Throughout this book we look at examples of LDAP records presented in plain text, with each line having an attribute description, followed by a colon and a value. The first line of the record is the DN, and usually the last lines of the record are the object class ...