Tuesday Aug 12, 2008

Setting Up OpenDS 1.0.0 as a Naming Service for the OpenSolaris OS, Part 1 of 2: Basic Steps

OpenDS, an open-source, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory-server project (henceforth, OpenDS), is written entirely in the Java programming language. The project, which just shipped its release 1.0.0, is gaining momentum with an ever-growing community of committers, contributors, and users.

This article, Part 1 of a two-part series, describes how to install and configure OpenDS as a naming service for UNIX clients that run the OpenSolaris Operating System, Sun's open-source operating system. The procedures in this series also apply to the Solaris 10 OS, which is free for download.

Part 2 steps you through the advanced configurations: setting up the directory service for UNIX user authentication, configuring for Digest-MD5 or CRAM-MD5 authentication, configuring clients, and so forth.