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

On systems that use the RPM system for tracking installed
software, it's preferable to use the RPM version.  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:
- development for OpenLDAP or an LDAP SDK and libraries
- GNOME 1 development libraries

as root, perform:

 ./configure
 make
 make install

(supposedly it's possible to do a non-root installation
 I myself have never tried, but the Conectiva people say
 they have done)

that's it.  The default install goes to /usr/local

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/
