Hi
 

> if you have no books. What websites do you recommend to learn openldap?
> 
For some easy to follow tutorials you could go to golinuxcloud.com. 
Unfortunately there is no search on that page, so best to search google like 
with those searchterms:
openldap site:golinuxcloud.com
This will bring up several step-by-step tutorials.
 
It might help to have a graphical utility to access your openldap installation. 
If you want a locally installed tool I suggest Apache Directory Studio:
https://directory.apache.org/studio/
Or if you prefer something webbased you might want to look into phpLDAPadmin
https://github.com/leenooks/phpLDAPadmin
 
Symas has a good KnowledgeBase with short blocks of information grouped by 
topic mostly around installtion of OpenLDAP. Most of it is relevant for all 
versions of OpenLDAP, not just the one offered by Symas
https://kb.symas.com/en_US/installation
 
To install OpenLDAP yourself (depending on your OS) you might prefer 
pre-compiled RPM or DEB packages which you can find from the OpenLDAP Toolbox 
project which offers other ressources (Nagios Checks, SelfServicePassword 
WebUI, etc.) as well:
https://ltb-project.org/
 
If you prefer containers then this might be a good starting point:
https://hub.docker.com/r/bitnami/openldap
 
The commandline tool ldapsearch is quite useful but especially the filters are 
a bit tricky to learn at first. A good explanation can be found here:
https://tylersguides.com/guides/ldap-search-filters/
 
If you want to administer your OpenLDAP installation on the commandline then 
there are a couple of different options. But this gives a quick overview of 
some of the more often used ones:
https://serverfault.com/questions/577356/ldap-backup-with-slapcat-vs-ldapsearch
 
To dive deeper into the commandline tools you probably won't get around reading 
some man pages. But with the links above you should be occupied for a while.
 
Best,
Cyril

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