The company I work for is considering using LDAP to consolidate all of our employees/customers/vendors contacts and addresses into a single source. All updates will also be done to that one source. We are also looking into the possibilities of using LDAP as part of our domain authentication framework.
I've been going through some LDAP HOWTOs but am somewhat confused about the tree structure of a directory. Some guides will start their tree of as o=my-company,c=MY in their slapd.conf file. Others will state dc=my-company,dc=com,dc=my. How do these 2 forms correlate. By starting my slapd.conf file with o=my-company,c=MY, I'm unable to add other entries outside of that scope. How do I go about putting other information that falls outside the root of my tree?
Are there any recommended GUI tools to manage an LDAP directory from both Windows and Linux?
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I've been going through some LDAP HOWTOs but am somewhat confused about the tree structure of a directory. Some guides will start their tree of as o=my-company,c=MY in their slapd.conf file. Others will state dc=my-company,dc=com,dc=my. How do these 2 forms correlate. By starting my slapd.conf file with o=my-company,c=MY, I'm unable to add other entries outside of that scope. How do I go about putting other information that falls outside the root of my tree?
Are there any recommended GUI tools to manage an LDAP directory from both Windows and Linux?
--== Anything can go wrong. It's just a matter of how far wrong it will go till people think its right. ==--