I downloaded the following rpm from Apache: apacheds1.0.2 and installed it whithout doing anything else. Everything went fine at first, but then I recognized, that the server didn’t start, though the script /etc/init.d/apacheds start finished with a success message. This problem did not show up when I used /etc/init.d/apacheds debug — I was able to reach the server, when I used this option, but who wants to debug all the time?! So, to make a long story short: I searched for a solution for a very long time and eventually found this post and it lead me to that jira entry.

With these documents I was able to solve the problem, as it was proposed in the latter one: I simply killed the option -user=$APACHEDS_USER in /etc/init.d/apacheds in the start section. Thank you, Ole Ersoy!