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# LDAP How To: A Quick Overview

This section provides a quick overview of the steps you'll need to take to get an LDAP directory working.

1. Make sure the `openldap` RPM, and any other LDAP-related RPMS that you need, are installed.

2. See either the Quick Start Guide at the `OpenLDAP` site (http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/172.html; start at "Create configuration file for slapd," since the LDAP files are already installed), or see the Linux-LDAP HOWTO (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/LDAP-HOWTO.html) for instructions on using LDAP on your system. Both cover the rest of these steps.

3. Edit the `slapd.conf` file to get it right for your system.

4. Start slapd.

5. Create your LDAP directory (examples of LDAP entries are provided at the PADL Software website at http://www.padl.com/ldap_examples.html).

6. Add entries to your LDAP directory with ldapadd or with a script.

7. Use ldapsearch to see if slapd is working.

8. At this point, your LDAP directory should exist. The next step is to configure your LDAP-enabled applications so that they can use the LDAP directory.

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