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Category Archives: Directory Servers

Point Restore of LDAP Entries

So, you do snap an LDIF backup of your LDAP directory every night, right?
If you don’t, start. Tonight. If you do, this bit of code may come in handy. It lets you do a point restore of a specific LDAP entry from that big LDIF.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Net::LDAP;
use Net::LDAP::Entry;
use Net::LDAP::LDIF;
#
my $HOME = $ENV{’HOME’};
my $DSHOME = “/opt/sun/directory5.1″;
my [...]

Posted 05 December 2008 † Phil Lembo § Identity Management § LDAP Operations § Operations § Programming § Tools ‡ Comments Off

CentOS Directory Server

The CentOS team has been repackaging Red Hat’s Directory Server for some time now. The packages, rebranded as the “CentOS Directory Server”, can be found over in the Testing repository for the latest (CentOS 5) version under the RPMS directory for the target architecture (for example, x86_64 packages would be found here.
There’s a How To [...]

Posted 04 December 2008 † Phil Lembo § Identity Management § LDAP Apps § LDAP Open Source § Linux § Open Source Software ‡ Comments Off