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 LDAP 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.
Contents
LDAP Basics
- "Now where did I put that...?", or "What is a
directory?"
- LDAPv3 Overview
- OpenLDAP
- OpenLDAP: Building a Company White Pages
- Replication, Referrals, Searching, and SASL
Explained
Application Integration
- Replacing NIS
- Email and LDAP
- Standard Unix Services and LDAP
- LDAP Interoperability
- Net::LDAP and Perl
Appendixes
Index