On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 13:19 -0800, Tim Alberts wrote: > Not really a question for a fedora user list, but this is the only list > I enjoy... > > > First, can I use a single LDAP server to maintain two different address > books (internal contacts / external contacts) and use it as an > authentication system for two (or more) Linux machines? I'm trying to > learn how to setup LDAP and I see all these tutorials for these tasks > separately, but nothing that really says I can do it all at once with > one server. ---- tackle these things one at a time. I would say - forget the address books for the time being - go for authentication because without authentication, you have no access control ---- > > Second, if the computer running the LDAP server fails in some manner is > the database easily copied/mirrored to another server that can take > over? Is it as easy as copy the config and data directory to the second > machine and turn on the server? Or does LDAP have a built in structure > for maintaining information among a primary/backup server? ---- man slurpd (for the time being) again, you have to learn to crawl before you can run. Start easy, slow of course, you can always slapcat the directory into a very portable file but slurpd is an automated method to 'replicate' a directory. New methods are in newer versions of openldap Craig
