ApacheDS

ApacheDS - LDAP - Kerberos - NFS4 here

STATUS: UNDER WORK

DATE: 2014-09-16

source: kurrola.dy.fi/mediawiki/apacheDS

There are many alternatives for LDAP. Most of them are hard to manage, configure and erroneus. apacheDS project is not 100% ready yet but offers solution at least get NFS4, Kerberos and LDAP deployed timely manner for small network.

Project pages: http://directory.apache.org/apached

Download: http://directory.apache.org/apacheds/download/download-linux-deb.html

Kindly use user'manuals at project site. These instruction's are Ubuntu Spesific and give's some contextual knowledge how apacheDS differs from other LDAP solutions.

Installation 64bit system - current version

prerequisite

To confirm the version of java installed run

java -version

You'll get an output that looks like:

java version "1.7.0_15"

OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea7 2.3.7) (7u15-2.3.7-0ubuntu1~12.04.1)

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode)

This one runs JRE version 7update15

If Java environment is not installed, we will need to install it by running this command from the terminal sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

apacheDS - LDAP - Kerberos server code

mkdir /mpi3/S4/apacheds
wget http://www.trieuvan.com/apache//directory/apacheds/dist/2.0.0-M17/apacheds-2.0.0-M17-amd64.deb
dbkg -i apacheds-2.0.0-M17-amd64.deb

After that Server can be found: /opt/apacheds-2.0.0-M17

LDAP database located:/var/lib/apacheds-2.0.0-M17/ <SERVER NAME>

Server's can be started via apache Directory Studio, by init script or commandline:

/opt/apacheds-2.0.0-M17/bin/apacheds <command> <instance name>

apache Directory studio - The tool to configure and manage servers

 cd /mpi3/S4/apacheds
 wget http://apache.spinellicreations.com//directory/studio/dist/2.0.0.v20130628/ApacheDirectoryStudio-linux-x86_64-2.0.0.v20130628.tar.gz
 
 

Get started

apacheDS is structured such way you can manage several servers. Directory studio gives easy way to add, modify, duplicate LDAP directoryes. There is build in mechanisms for replication setup. Vis studio yiu can import/export *.ldif's and *.schema's to and from your installations.

You can create server's database and deploy it just copying created database at directory /var/lib/apacheds-2.0.0-M17/ <SERVER NAME>