To begin, launch the OpenDS QuickSetup JNLP (Java Web Start) installer, then follow the installation steps to set up your directory server.
You can obtain the installer from https://opends.java.net/ by clicking the "Install with QuickSetup" link.
As part of this installation, you will specify a password, which we will call YOUR_SELECTED_PASSWORD.
Next, load some credentials into the directory server. Download this sample file of credentials: http://today.java.net/today/2007/03/22/secArticle.LDIF. Now load it into your directory server using the import-ldif tool in the bin directory of your OpenDS installation. (Make sure that OpenDS is not running when you import credentials; otherwise you will receive an error message indicating that the import utility cannot acquire a lock over storage.)
import-ldif --backendID userRoot --ldifFile secArticle.LDIF
Now bring up the OpenDS server by running the start-ds script in the bin directory of your OpenDS installation.