LDAP Tools/OpenLDAP HowTo/Mac OS X

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Mac OS X itself provides its own propertietary directory service which I believe is based on OpenLDAP. For the purposes of this I'm going to assume you don't have access to this, so you're going to need your own server.


Fink

Luckily that isn't much of an issues. The Fink project provides a port of the OpenLDAP software which, through the FinkCommander application, is rather trivial to install. You will need to have Fink installed but this is not too hard.

Using FinkCommander install the following: 

openssl097
openssl097-shlibs

openldap-ssl
openldap-ssl-shlibs

db43-ssl-shlibs 

cyrus-sasl2-shlibs
cyrus-sasl2
cyrus-sasl2-doc

This should get you up and running with slapd on your Mac. I originally attempted a non SSL install but have since switched to SSL after reading the below listed blog: Setting up slapd on Mac OS X

Ports

I was using a Mac OS X Server 10.4 box and used ports to install OpenLDAP with SSL support.

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