Gerald Carter

LDAP System Administration

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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::LDAPIf 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 181mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9781565924918
• ISBN-10: 1565924916
• Artikelnr.: 09674793

Autorenporträt

Gerald (Jerry) Carter received his Masters degree in Computer Science from Auburn University, where he continues to pursue his PhD. He has been a member of the SAMBA development Team since 1998 and his involvement with UNIX systems and network administration of UNIX began in 1995. Jerry currently works for HP, working on embedded printing appliances. He has published articles with various web-based magazines and teaches instructional courses as a consultant for several companies and conferences. Gerald has also written books for SAMS Publishing. His web site is http://www.plainjoe.org/.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
How This Book Is Organized
Conventions Used in This Book
Comments and Questions
Acknowledgments
Part I: LDAP Basics
Chapter 1: "Now where did I put that...?", or "What is a directory?"
1.1 The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
1.2 What Is LDAP?
1.3 LDAP Models
Chapter 2: LDAPv3 Overview
2.1 LDIF
2.2 What Is an Attribute?
2.3 What Is the dc Attribute?
2.4 Schema References
2.5 Authentication
2.6 Distributed Directories
2.7 Continuing Standardization
Chapter 3: OpenLDAP
3.1 Obtaining the OpenLDAP Distribution
3.2 Software Requirements
3.3 Compiling OpenLDAP 2
3.4 OpenLDAP Clients and Servers
3.5 The slapd.conf Configuration File
3.6 Access Control Lists (ACLs)
Chapter 4: OpenLDAP: Building a Company White Pages
4.1 A Starting Point
4.2 Defining the Schema
4.3 Updating slapd.conf
4.4 Starting slapd
4.5 Adding the Initial Directory Entries
4.6 Graphical Editors
Chapter 5: Replication, Referrals, Searching, and SASL Explained
5.1 More Than One Copy Is "a Good Thing"
5.2 Distributing the Directory
5.3 Advanced Searching Options
5.4 Determining a Server's Capabilities
5.5 Creating Custom Schema Files for slapd
5.6 SASL and OpenLDAP
Part II: Application Integration
Chapter 6: Replacing NIS
6.1 More About NIS
6.2 Schemas for Information Services
6.3 Information Migration
6.4 The pam_ldap Module
6.5 The nss_ldap Module
6.6 OpenSSH, PAM, and NSS
6.7 Authorization Through PAM
6.8 Netgroups
6.9 Security
6.10 Automount Maps
6.11 PADL's NIS/LDAP Gateway
Chapter 7: Email and LDAP
7.1 Representing Users
7.2 Email Clients and LDAP
7.3 Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs)
Chapter 8: Standard Unix Services and LDAP
8.1 The Directory Namespace
8.2 An FTP/HTTP Combination
8.3 User Authentication with Samba
8.4 FreeRadius
8.5 Resolving Hosts
8.6 Central Printer Management
Chapter 9: LDAP Interoperability
9.1 Interoperability or Integration?
9.2 Directory Gateways
9.3 Cross-Platform Authentication Services
9.4 Distributed, Multivendor Directories
9.5 Metadirectories
9.6 Push/Pull Agents for Directory Synchronization
Chapter 10: Net::LDAP and Perl
10.1 The Net::LDAP Module
10.2 Connecting, Binding, and Searching
10.3 Working with Net::LDAP::LDIF
10.4 Updating the Directory
10.5 Advanced Net::LDAP Scripting
Part III: Appendixes
Appendix A: PAM and NSS
A.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules
A.2 Name Service Switch (NSS)
Appendix B: OpenLDAP Command-Line Tools
B.1 Debugging Options
B.2 Slap Tools
B.3 LDAP Tools
Appendix C: Common Attributes and Objects
C.1 Schema Files
C.2 Attributes
C.3 Object Classes
Appendix D: LDAP RFCs, Internet-Drafts, and Mailing Lists
D.1 Requests for Comments
D.2 Mailing Lists
Appendix E: slapd.conf ACLs
E.1 What?
E.2 Who?
E.3 How Much?
E.4 Examples
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