3.3. Installing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using an Express Installation
Log in as root.
If you have not already done so, download the product binaries file to the installation directory.
Use the rpm tool to install the server components, as follows:
rpm -ivh package.rpm
The server components are then installed in the default location: /opt/redhat-ds/ .
Next, you need to create an instance of the Directory Server by running the setup program:
cd /opt/redhat-ds/ ./setup/setup
Type y to accept the licensing agreement, then y again to continue with setup.
Type y to continue with setup once dsktune has completed. Refer to Section 2.3.1 dsktune Utility for more information.
Select the installation mode (express installation).
For the hostname, either enter a fully qualified hostname or select the default (which is the local host).
Caution The default hostname may be incorrect if the installer cannot locate a DNS name in your system. For example, you might not have a DNS name if your system uses NIS.
The hostname must be a fully qualified host and domain name. If the default hostname is not a fully qualified host and domain name, installation will fail. Refer to Section 7.2 Common Installation Problems for more information about entering a fully qualified domain name.
The setup program then asks you for the System User and the System Group names. Enter the identity under which you want the servers to run.
For more information on the user and group names that you should use when running your servers, refer to Section 1.2.3 Deciding the User and Group for Your Servers.
For the configuration directory administrator ID and password, enter the name and password as whom you will log in when you want to authenticate to the Console with full privileges.
For the Directory Manager DN, enter the DN that you will use when managing the contents of your directory with unlimited privileges.
Note Any DN must be entered in the UTF-8 character set encoding. Older encodings such as ISO-8859-1 are not supported.
In former releases of Directory Server, the Directory Manager was known as the root DN. This is the entry that you use to bind to the directory when you want access control to be ignored. This DN can be short and does not have to conform to any suffix configured for your directory. However, it should not correspond to an actual entry stored in your directory.
For the Directory Manager password, enter a value that is at least 8 characters long.