On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Scott Balneaves <sbalneav@legalaid.mb.ca> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 04:16:49PM -0500, David Hopkins wrote:
> And ... at the risk of raising ire, while setting up the server can be
> difficult, setting up an ldap client should not be so hard. *IHMO RedHat has
> it done correctly with a simple GUI, enter the ldap server IP address, click
> OK, and you're done. *Doesn't get any simpler.
Debian, and by extention, debian based distros, have always maintained that
debconf shall be the way that conf shall be done. *It's more a debconf
limitation than anything else.
Ahh ....
*
I can spend a few minutes this weekend, and get a simplified procedure written
down. *The problem, as with anything to do with LDAP, is in the details.
Very much appreciated.
> For Ubuntu, which I really want to use as a replacement for my RedHat
> servers and move to LTSP 5 from 4.2, I have now tried the install 3 times
> and just the install has behaved differently each time. *Not sure why .. I
> installed the same packages each time.
Have you been doing apt-get *purge* package? *Otherwise, you're leaving conf
files about, and debconf will be trying to re-use perhaps incorrectly set up
configs. *Getting you nowhere fast.
purge?* Ok, learn something new every day. I'll try uninstalling with the purge option and try again.
Thanks!
Dave ...
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02-07-2010, 03:32 AM
Scott Balneaves
OpenLDAP setup on Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 04:51:33PM -0500, David Hopkins wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Scott Balneaves <sbalneav@legalaid.mb.ca>wrote:
> > I can spend a few minutes this weekend, and get a simplified procedure
> > written
> > down. The problem, as with anything to do with LDAP, is in the details.
> >
>
> Very much appreciated.
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02-07-2010, 03:32 AM
Scott Balneaves
OpenLDAP setup on Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 04:51:33PM -0500, David Hopkins wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Scott Balneaves <sbalneav@legalaid.mb.ca>wrote:
> > I can spend a few minutes this weekend, and get a simplified procedure
> > written
> > down. The problem, as with anything to do with LDAP, is in the details.
> >
>
> Very much appreciated.
OpenLDAP setup on Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2
