macOS (Mac OS X or OS X) is the current series of Unix-based graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc . designed to run on Apple's Macintosh computers ("Macs"). Within the market of desktop, laptop and home computers, and by web usage, it is the second most widely used desktop OS after Microsoft  Windows . Recently, while working on one of my projects, there was a requiremnt to integrate our system with LDAP i.e. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ( LDAP ). So, I wanted to try out some samples by installing OpenLDAP  on my MAC. Initially, it looked streightforward but later I realized that there are multiple steps involved to get OpenLDAP up and running in my Mac. So, I thought of documenting various steps so that others can refer them.   What do you need to begin?   MAC   Obviously you need MAC because these steps will work only for MAC (Sorry Windows users)   Homebrew   This is a package manager for macOS. Click here  and follow the instructio...