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This service-oriented VMWare image provides an instant LDAP directory service with OpenLDAP v2.3.4 in a small size (about 93M)

Features

Collegiate:
No

One-line Description:
This service-oriented VMWare image provides an instant LDAP directory service with OpenLDAP v2.3.4 in a small size (about 93M)

Filename:
OpenLDAP.zip

Size Compressed:
93M

Allocated Memory:
256M or above

Username:
root

Password:
toor

VMware Tools Installed?:
No

Operating System:
SLAX 5.0.6

Torrent?:
No

Applications:
OpenLDAP v2.3.4
Berkeley DB v4.2.52
Cyrus SASL Library v2.1.21

Description:
This service-oriented VMWare image provides an instant LDAP directory service with OpenLDAP v2.3.4 in a small size (about 93M). It includes Berkeley DB v4.2.52 and Cyrus SASL Library v2.1.21 in supporting the OpenLDAP server.
Users can configure their application servers or other applications with this LDAP server without the hassles of installing another LDAP server and supporting softwares. Users can also customize the image and burn it as a livecd or install it on a physical machine after testing it on VMWare.
This VMWare image is built on a linux distribution, SLAX Frodo Edition v5.0.6 (http://www.slax.org). SLAX is a fast and beautiful Linux operating system that can runs directly from CD. It can also be installed in a hard disk. To build this VMWare image, the following steps are required:
1. Create a new VMWare machine with the iso image of SLAX Frodo Edition v5.0.6 in its CDROM.
2. Boot the VMWare using the iso image.
3. Install SLAX onto the hard disk of the VMWare machine.
4. Configure the network settings and enable some network services, e.g. rc.sshd.
5. Install some tools that are not included in the SLAX Frodo Edition v5.0.6, e.g. vi.
6. Install Berkeley DB v4.2.52, Cyrus SASL Library v2.1.21 and OpenLDAP v2.3.4.
7. Create a second hard disk for storing the OpenLDAP data if needed.
8. Configure OpenLDAP.
9. Clean up the image and write documentations.
To use the image, you need to create a VMWare image with this image as the virtual disk. When choosing the guest OS of the VMWare machine, choose "Custom -> Linux -> Other Linux". If you want to add a second virtual hard disk, select IDE instead of SCSI.
To start the LDAP server, run the following command:
su root -c /usr/libexec/slapd
To add a LDAP entry, run the following command with the password 'secret' as an example:
ldapadd -x -D "cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com" -W -f /root/example.ldif
Note: the password is defined in /etc/openldap/slapd.conf. If you modify slapd.conf and want the changes stay after the reboot, you need copy slapd.conf to /mnt/hda1/SLAX/rootcopy/etc/openldap.
To search a LDAP entry, run the following command as an example:
ldapsearch -x -b 'dc=example,dc=com' '(objectclass=*)'
To stop the LDAP server, run the following command:
kill -INT `cat /var/run/slapd.pid`
See QuickStartGuide.txt in /root for details.
All the applications are under the GPL/LGPL licences.

Technical Specifications

Operating System:

SLAX 5.0.6

VMware Tools installed: No

Size: 93MB

Allocated Memory (RAM): 256

Applications Installed:

OpenLDAP v2.3.4
Berkeley DB v4.2.52
Cyrus SASL Library v2.1.21

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