Enabling ldap directory services – Sybase DC35823-01-1500-04 User Manual

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Enabling LDAP directory services

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Adaptive Server Enterprise

You should edit both the libtcl.cfg and the libtcl64.cfg files to ensure
compatibility between 32- and 64-bit applications.

The default libtcl.cfg file is located in $SYBASE/$SYBASE_OCS/config.

If LDAP is specified in the libtcl.cfg file, the interfaces file is not used.

Note

Open Client/Open Server applications that use the

-I

option at start-up

override the libtcl.cfg file and use the interfaces file.

In its simplest form, the libtcl.cfg file is in this format:

[DIRECTORY]

ldap=libsybdldap.dll ldapurl

where the ldapurl is defined as:

ldap://host:port/ditbase

The following LDAP entry, using these same attributes, is an anonymous
connection and only works only if the LDAP server allows read-only access.

ldap=libsybdldap.dll ldap://seashore/d=sybase,dc=com

You can specify a user name and password in the libtcl.cfg file as extensions to
the LDAP URL to enable password authentication at connection time.

Enabling LDAP directory services

To use a directory service, you must:

1

Configure the LDAP server according to the vendor-supplied
documentation.

2

Add the location of the LDAP libraries to the Unix load library path
environment variable for your platform.

3

Configure the libtcl.cfg file to use directory services.

Use any standard ASCII text editor to:

Remove the semicolon (;) comment markers from the beginning of
the LDAP URL lines in the libtcl.cfg file under the [DIRECTORY]
entry.

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