Appendix A - LDAP Notes & Explanations

The following notes provide more detail about certain aspects of either LDAP or OpenLDAP:

1. OpenLDAP - change or add LDAP or LDAPS port numbers
2. LDAP: Root Name Angst (a.k.a. base, suffix)
3. LDAP: Defining a simple Root or Suffix
4. LDAP: Defining an X.500 format Root or Suffix
5. LDAP: Defining an RFC 2247 format Root or Suffix
6. LDAP: URL Searches
7. LDAP: DNs and RDNs
8. LDAP: subentries
9. LDAP: DN used in Authentication (Bind DN and Principal DN)
10. LDAP: Text Search Filter
11. LDAP: Component Matching Search Filter
12. OpenLDAP: Multiple DITs
13. LDAP: OID (Object Identifiers)
14. LDAP: Quick ASN.1
15. LDAP: Survival ASN.1
16. LDAP: Need to define the objectClass hierarchy?
17. LDAP: Inheritance - or why it appears an entry has two or more STRUCTURAL objectClasses
18. LDAP: Data Types
19. OpenLDAP: Indexing Entries
20. LDAP: Comparison and Searching Information
21. OpenLDAP: Adding records - slapadd vs ldapadd
22. LDAP: Some Notes on Structuring Directories
23. OpenLDAP: What you can and can't do without ripping up and starting again
24. OpenLDAP: slapd command line options
25. OpenLDAP: Notes about overlays in OpenLDAP (or when is an overlay an overlay)
26. LDAP: Defining Search filters
27. OpenLDAP: Notes about running/initialising OpenLDAP

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