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May 2008

Upgrading OpenLDAP on CentOS


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Main Article    Integrate Active Directory and OpenLDAP

To upgrade from OpenLDAP 2.2 to OpenLDAP 2.3 on CentOS 4.3, you need to update yum, the automatic updater/package installer/remover for RPM systems. Then you’re ready to upgrade your OpenLDAP packages. First, point yum at the CentOS development repository, or repo, by adding these lines to /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo:

[testing]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Testing
baseurl=http://dev.centos.org/centos/
$releasever/testing/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://dev.centos.org/centos/
RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-testing

Next, upgrade your OpenLDAP packages using this command:

# yum -y install openldap.i386 openl
dap-clients.i386 openldap-devel.i386 openldap-servers.i386

Upgrading may take a while, as yum needs to update all packages related to OpenLDAP as well.

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Reader Comments
I loved the subject of this article. We're currently going through an auditing process and integration of our LINUX accounts with AD would go along way in streamlining the way we demonstrate compliance.

I would love to see more articles like this that integrate Windows with other OS's.

With that in mind the name of this magazine is "WINDOWS IT Pro". While I'd like to think I can navigate a 'nix system pretty well your article leaves a lot of gaps in the low-level processes. Navigation of the web site for the CentOS rpm alone yields several pages of possible downloads with seemingly few distinctions made between them.

The sidebars too could be bolstered with details like instructions for downloading the file and transferring it to the unix system (i.e. with an smb mountpoint) and flags for installing the rpm packages (rpm -i filename.rpm).

Perhaps I represent the minority, but I'm reading this from a WINDOWS administrator perspective. I realize that simple Linux navigation (like the necessity of "su" 'ing after initial login) is arguably too detailed for inclusion, but the article left a lot of details to be desired.

I suppose the argument could be made that if one doesn't know how to log into a Linux system one shouldn't be integrating it with one's enterprise directory. However at a minimum any article proposing this integration should probably narrow down the field of possible downloads available out on (http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/) for fear of endorsing the wrong one.

Thanks for a great article, but please don’t spare us the details.

Tallarico May 14, 2008 (Article Rating: )


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