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Remove Trailing Spaces Using Sed

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Today we look at some really practical usage of sed, the Linux stream editor. Seeing how we can remove trailing spaces using sed and keep our openLDAP LDIF files clean. In our previous video, we saw how, if there were trailing spaces at a line ending in an LDIF file the attribute would be encoded. […]

OpenLDAP OUs

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In the last post we looked at installing openLDAP on Ubuntu 16.04. We now move unto creating some structure in the tree and creating openLDAP OUs, or Organisational Units. Now that we have the example.com directory up and running we start to build on what we have. We need to create entries in the directory […]

OpenLDAP Install Ubuntu 16.04

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In this lesson we look at an OpenLDAP install on Ubuntu 16.04 server. Installing OpenLDAP varies depending on the system that you use. Using Ubuntu, a little of the configuration of the directory is completed during the install  whereby, the upper level or root container is created along with the Admin user for that directory. This […]

Installing the 389-ds LDAP Directory on CentOS 6.5

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Installing and and using the openLDAP server is sometimes not the most simple of tasks; in order to simplify this Red Hat developed their IDM Directory Server which is at version 9.1 currently. This is available on CentOS and Fedora as the 389-ds and we will take a look at the preparation, installation and setup […]

Manage openLDAP users with VB Scripts

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Yes Windows and Linux and co-exist! Here we look at using VBScript and ADSI to manage entries in our openLDAP SUSE Server. When Microsoft brought out their Active Directory with Windows 2000 they also developed the ADSI interface that we can use with VBScript to access LDAP object. The Active Directory is LDAP as is, […]