Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual

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server manually, enter the command rcldap stop. Request the status of the runningLDAP server with rcldap status.The YaST runlevel editor, described in Section 20.2.3, “Configuring System Services(Runlevel) with YaST” (page 396), can be used to have the server started and stoppedautomatically on boot and halt of the system. It is also possible to create the correspond-ing links to the start and stop scripts with the insserv command from a commandprompt as described in Section 20.2.2, “Init Scripts” (page 392).37.4 Data Handling in the LDAPDirectoryOpenLDAP offers a series of tools for the administration of data in the LDAP directory.The four most important tools for adding to, deleting from, searching through, andmodifying the data stock are briefly explained below.37.4.1 Inserting Data into an LDAP DirectoryOnce the configuration of your LDAP server in /etc/openldap/slapd.conf iscorrect and ready to go (it features appropriate entries for suffix, directory,rootdn, rootpw, and index), proceed to entering records. OpenLDAP offers theldapadd command for this task. If possible, add the objects to the database in bundlesfor practical reasons. LDAP is able to process the LDIF format (LDAP data interchangeformat) for this. An LDIF file is a simple text file that can contain an arbitrary numberof attribute and value pairs. Refer to the schema files declared in slapd.conf forthe available object classes and attributes. The LDIF file for creating a rough frameworkfor the example in Figure 37.1, “Structure of an LDAP Directory” (page 684) wouldlook like that in Example 37.7, “Example for an LDIF File” (page 692).LDAP—A Directory Service 691