Note 3: If you need other people to interact with your LDAP Server, consider purchasing a certificate signed by a Certificate Authority.

Note 2: replace any instance of with the FQDN of your LDAP Server! This is a pre-requisite to run a secure ldap installation Yum install openldap-servers openldap-clients migrationtoolsĬreate Self-Signed certificate openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -out /etc/openldap/certs/ -keyout /etc/openldap/certs/.pem -days 720 RHEL7: Configure a LDAP directory service for user connection.Step by Step OpenLDAP Server Configuration on RHEL7/Centos7.OpenLdap 2.4 on centos 6 doesn't listen on port 636.This guide will walk through setting up OpenLDAP server that communicates using a self-signed certificate (LDAPS over port 636) and that has the appropriate schema files which allow a separate samba server to leverage OpenLDAP for share permissions (configuring Samba is a different article for another day!) References This guide will walk through setting up OpenLDAP server that communicates using a self-signed certificate (LDAPS over port 636) and that has the appropriate schema files which allow a separate samba server to leverage OpenLDAP for share permissions (configuring Samba is a different article for another day!) Unfortunately, most resources out there on the internet revolve around configuring the nf file, which isn't a viable solution when standing up a new server given that OpenLDAP uses a newer and much more confusing system to store its settings. Configuring OpenLDAP is a non-trivial exercise which required examining dozens of web pages and PDFs to get the information I needed to complete my task. As part of a network infrastructure refresh I ended up rebuilding our OpenLDAP and Samba servers so they would play nicely with each other.

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