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Alternatively, if you are using an external LDAP server, start that server in the normal manner and follow the remaining instructions here.

LDAP sample application

For your convenience we have provided the sample application and deployment plans packaged into a zip file.
Download the sample application from the following URL:

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Source Code

You can checkout the source code of this sample from SVN:

svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/samples/trunk/samples/ldap-sample-app^{Image Added} ldap-sample-app

After extracting the zip file a The above command places the source under ldap-sample-app directory is created, from now on this directory will be referred as <ldap_home>.

At this point it is assumed that you have installed an LDAP client and you are capable of exporting/importing an .ldif file to a directory server.

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You can checkout the source code of this sample from SVN:

svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/samples/trunk/samples/ldap-sample-app^{Image Removed}

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Add LDAP entries

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dn: ou=system
ou: system
objectClass: organizationalUnit
objectClass: top

dn: uid=admin, ou=system
displayName: Directory Superuser
uid: admin
userPassword:: c2VjcmV0
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
objectClass: organizationalPerson
objectClass: person
objectClass: top
sn: administrator
cn: system administrator

dn: ou=users, ou=system
ou: users
objectClass: organizationalUnit
objectClass: top

dn: ou=groups, ou=system
ou: groups
objectClass: organizationalUnit
objectClass: top

dn: ou=configuration, ou=system
ou: configuration
objectClass: organizationalUnit
objectClass: top

dn: ou=partitions, ou=configuration, ou=system
ou: partitions
objectClass: organizationalUnit
objectClass: top

dn: ou=services, ou=configuration, ou=system
ou: services
objectClass: organizationalUnit
objectClass: top

dn: ou=interceptors, ou=configuration, ou=system
ou: interceptors
objectClass: organizationalUnit
objectClass: top

dn: prefNodeName=sysPrefRoot, ou=system
objectClass: extensibleObject
prefNodeName: sysPrefRoot

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Now you need to import the entries needed to run the sample application. Packaged with the sample application is a sample .ldif file with all the entries necessary to run the LDAP sample application, this file is located in <ldap_home>/ldap-sample.ldif. To import the data with ldapmodify tool execute the following command:

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