User manual REDHAT DIRECTORY SERVER 8.1 INSTALLATION GUIDE 11-01-2010

[. . . ] Red Hat Directory Server 8. 1 Installation Guide Publication date: April 28, 2009, updated on January 11, 2010 Ella Deon Lackey Installation Guide Red Hat Directory Server 8. 1 Installation Guide Author Copyright © 2009 Red Hat, Inc. The text of and illustrations in this document are licensed by Red Hat under a Creative Commons Attribution­Share Alike 3. 0 Unported license ("CC-BY-SA"). An explanation of CC-BY-SA is available at http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-sa/3. 0/. In accordance with CC-BY-SA, if you distribute this document or an adaptation of it, you must provide the URL for the original version. [. . . ] Set the user and group as which the Directory Server process will run. For example: System User [daemon]: System Group [daemon]: 7. The next step allows you to register your Directory Server with an existing Directory Server instance, called the Configuration Directory Server. This registers the new instance so it can be managed by the Console. If this is the first Directory Server instance set up on your network, it is not possible to register it with another directory. Select n to set up this Directory Server as a Configuration Directory Server and move to the next custom install step, setting up the administrator user. NOTE To register the Directory Server instance with an existing Configuration Directory Server, select yes. This continues with the registration process rather than the regular custom setup process. Registering a new instance with a Configuration Directory Server requires you to supply information about the Configuration Directory Server: · The Configuration Directory Server URL, such as ldap:// ldap. example. com:389/o=NetscapeRoot To use TLS/SSL, set the protocol as ldaps:// instead of ldap:// For LDAPS, use the secure port (636) instead of the standard port (389), and provide a CA certificate. · The Configuration Directory Server administrator's user ID; by default, this is admin. 46 Custom Setup · The administrator user's password. · The Configuration Directory Server Admin domain, such as example. com. · The CA certificate to authenticate to the Configuration Directory Server. This is only required if the Directory Server instance will connect to the Configuration Directory Server over LDAPS. This should be the full path and filename the CA certificate in PEM/ASCII format. This information is supplied in place of creating an admin user and domain for the new Directory Server steps 8, 9, and 10. Set the administrator password and confirm it. This defaults to the host's domain. For example: Administration Domain [example. com]: 11. The default is 389, but if that port is in use, the setup program supplies a randomly generated one. Directory server network port [389]: 1066 12. Enter the Directory Server identifier; this defaults to the hostname. Directory server identifier [example]: The server identifier must not contain a period (. ) or space character. For example: Suffix [dc=example, dc=com]: 14. Set the Directory Manager password and confirm it. Select whether you want to install sample entries with the Directory Server instance. [. . . ] Also called a subagent. SNMP master agent SNMP subagent 104 SSL A software library establishing a secure connection between two parties (client and server) used to implement HTTPS, the secure version of HTTP. Allows for efficient searching against substrings within entries. Substring indexes are limited to a minimum of two characters for each entry. The name of the entry at the top of the directory tree, below which data is stored. [. . . ]