RPM installation
==================

For systems that use RPM (RedHat Package Manager), there is an RPM package
available.  If you don't have it but want to build it, use the command:

 rpmbuild -ta directory_administrator*.tar.gz

as root, unless you have configured the RPM build
environment as a regular user.

Quick installation
==================

Build prerequisites:
- OpenLDAP libs or other C LDAP SDK
- GNOME 2 development libraries

Open a terminal and type:

 ./configure
 make
 su -
 make install

By default Directory Administrator will be installed to /usr/local/bin/directory_administrator.


OpenLDAP
==================
OpenLDAP versions 2.2 and newer enforce structural integrity of object classes, which
will currently cause DA to fail if the "Grant access to all hosts" checkbox is unchecked.

As a temporary workaround, schema checking must be disabled in OpenLDAP. To do this, set

schema_check off

in the slapd.conf file, and restart slapd.

A correction to this fault will come soon.


Quick usage guide
=================

You need to have a directory server up and running.

Instructions for setting up one abound around the Internet.
It is advisable you install your distribution's LDAP server
and client packages.  Make sure you have the latest distri-
bution.  I recommend the LDAP-HOWTO as good reading,
easily found at the Linux documentation project Web site
http://tldp.org

Instructions for migrating your user/password database
to the directory server can be found at http://www.open-it.org
There are also instructions for configuring your Linux work-
stations to log on to the directory instead of looking into
their password files or using NIS/Yellow Pages.  A great tool
to migrate your user/password database is the MigrationTools
distributed by PADL software: http://www.padl.com/
