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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 LDAP protocol, all aspects of building and installing OpenLDAP, plus key ancillary packages like SASL and OpenSSL, this book discusses:
Carter discusses using directories for the Unix system administration, and tells readers how to get the directory running, how to get data into the directory, and other critical LDAP skills.
PrefacePart I: LDAP BasicsChapter 1: "Now where did I put that...?", or "What is a directory?"Chapter 2: LDAPv3 OverviewChapter 3: OpenLDAPChapter 4: OpenLDAP: Building a Company White PagesChapter 5: Replication, Referrals, Searching, and SASL ExplainedPart II: Application IntegrationChapter 6: Replacing NISChapter 7: Email and LDAPChapter 8: Standard Unix Services and LDAPChapter 9: LDAP InteroperabilityChapter 10: Net::LDAP and PerlPart III: AppendixesAppendix A: PAM and NSSAppendix B: OpenLDAP Command-Line Tools Appendix C: Common Attributes and ObjectsAppendix D: LDAP RFCs, Internet-Drafts, and Mailing ListsAppendix E: slapd.conf ACLsColophon
Anonymous
Posted July 20, 2011
While the book does an excellent job of outlining how to use OpenLDAP for a wide variety of purposes, it's no longer up to date. This book covers OpenLDAP 2.1.x. With the release of OpenLDAP 2.3, configuration for the server has been moved into the LDAP database. A large portion of the book is concerned with configuring the server using the old flat file structure. While the settings haven't changed significantly, adapting the instructions to the new system isn't easy. I hope an updated edition is in the works.
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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 ...