LDAP System Administration

Name: LDAP System Administration
Author: Gerald Carter

Paperback Engels 2003 9781565924918

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Be more productive and make your life easier. That's what 'LDAP System Administration' is all about.

System administrators often spend a great deal of time managing configuration information located on many different machines: usernames, passwords, printer configurations, email client configurations, and network filesystem configurations, to name a few. LDAPv3 provides tools for centralizing all of the configuration information and placing it under your control. Rather than maintaining several administrative databases (NIS, Active Directory, Samba, and NFS configuration files), you can make changes in only one place and have all your systems immediately "see" the updated information.

Practically platform independent, this book uses the widely available, open source OpenLDAP 2 directory server as a premise for examples, showing you how to use it to help you manage your configuration information effectively and securely. OpenLDAP 2 ships with most Linux distributions and Mac OS X, and can be easily downloaded for most Unix-based systems.

After introducing the workings of a directory service and the LAP protocol, all aspects of building and installing OpenLDAP, plus key ancillary packages like SASL and OpenSSL, this book discusses:
- Configuration and access control
- Distributed directories; replication and referral
- Using OpenLDAP to replace NIS
- Using OpenLDAP to manage email configurations
- Using LDAP for abstraction with FTP and HTTP servers, Samba, and Radius
- Interoperating with different LDAP servers, including Active Directory
- Programming using Net::LDAP

If you want to be a master of your domain, 'LDAP System Administration' will help you get up and running quickly regardless of which LDAP version you use. After reading this book, even with no previous LDAP experience, you'll be able to integrate a directory server into essential network services such as mail, DNS, HTTP, and SMB/CIFS.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9781565924918

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:paperback

Aantal pagina's:308

Uitgever:O'Reilly

Druk:0

Hoofdrubriek:IT-management / ICT

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Inhoudsopgave

Preface

Part I. LDAP Basics

1. "Now where did I put that...?", or "What is a directory?"
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
What Is LDAP?
LDAP Models

2. LDAPv3 Overview
LDIF
What Is an Attribute?
What Is the dc Attribute?
Schema References
Authentication
Distributed Directories
Continuing Standardization

3. OpenLDAP
Obtaining the OpenLDAP Distribution
Software Requirements
Compiling OpenLDAP 2
OpenLDAP Clients and Servers
The slapd.conf Configuration File
Access Control Lists (ACLs)

4. OpenLDAP: Building a Company White Pages
A Starting Point
Defining the Schema
Updating slapd.conf
Starting slapd
Adding the Initial Directory Entries
Graphical Editors

5. Replication, Referrals, Searching, and SASL Explained
More Than One Copy Is "a Good Thing"
Distributing the Directory
Advanced Searching Options
Determining a Server's Capabilities
Creating Custom Schema Files for slapd
SASL and OpenLDAP

Part II. Application Integration

6. Replacing NIS
More About NIS
Schemas for Information Services
Information Migration
The pam_ldap Module
The nss_ldap Module
OpenSSH, PAM, and NSS
Authorization Through PAM
Netgroups
Security
Automount Maps
PADL's NIS/LDAP Gateway

7. Email and LDAP
Representing Users
Email Clients and LDAP
Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs)

8. Standard Unix Services and LDAP
The Directory Namespace
An FTP/HTTP Combination
User Authentication with Samba
FreeRadius
Resolving Hosts
Central Printer Management

9. LDAP Interoperability
Interoperability or Integration?
Directory Gateways
Cross-Platform Authentication Services
Distributed, Multivendor Directories
Metadirectories
Push/Pull Agents for Directory Synchronization

10. Net::LDAP and Perl
The Net::LDAP Module
Connecting, Binding, and Searching
Working with Net::LDAP::LDIF
Updating the Directory
Advanced Net::LDAP Scripting

Part III. Appendixes
A. PAM and NSS
B. OpenLDAP Command-Line Tools
C. Common Attributes and Objects
D. LDAP RFCs, Internet-Drafts, and Mailing Lists
E. slapd.conf ACLs

Index