OpenLDAP book?

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 13:46:12 PDT
Ken Ambrose said:

>Hey, all.  It appears to me that OpenLDAP has an almost complete dearth of
>dead-tree documentation.  Is this true? 

Ayup!  I've been looking for a good book on LDAP of *any* kind for a 
couple of years now.  There are a 3 or 4 out there, but nothing 
really on technical side of running an LDAP server, and getting 
information into and out of it.  There seems to be a lot on building 
applications to *use* an already existing LDAP server, which really 
doesn't do you much good if you can't figure out how to set the damn 
thing up and populate it to begin with!

>Does anyone know of a reasonably good book that is still in print
>that I might be able to find?

There's one by Marc Wilcox, published by Wrox Press, called 
Implementing LDAP.  The book focuses mostly on the Netscape server, 
and is a couple years old, but has a decent amount on OpenLDAP as 
well.  The focus on the Netscape server is due to Marc's involvement 
with and development for Netscape I assume.  The book is pretty 
decent, but still not the "Sysadmin's Guide to OpenLDAP" I'd prefer 
existed :(

HTH,

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