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Introduction
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**OpenLDAP** is a free, open-source implementation of the :abbr:`LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)` developed by the OpenLDAP Project.
It is released under its own BSD-style license called the OpenLDAP Public License.

In these manuals I would like to trace a configuration path to facilitate the creation of a complete OpenLdap Server.
We will see how to make a Provider and a Consumer Server with TLS secure connections. We will see also how to make a personal schema with own attributes.