LDAP System Administration
LDAP System Administration By Gerald Carter
March 2003
Pages: 308

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Table of Contents

  1. LDAP Basics

    1. Chapter 1 "Now where did I put that...?", or "What is a directory?"

      1. The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
      2. What Is LDAP?
      3. LDAP Models

    2. Chapter 2 LDAPv3 Overview

      1. LDIF
      2. What Is an Attribute?
      3. What Is the dc Attribute?
      4. Schema References
      5. Authentication
      6. Distributed Directories
      7. Continuing Standardization

    3. Chapter 3 OpenLDAP

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

    4. Chapter 4 OpenLDAP: Building a Company White Pages

      1. A Starting Point
      2. Defining the Schema
      3. Updating slapd.conf
      4. Starting slapd
      5. Adding the Initial Directory Entries
      6. Graphical Editors

    5. Chapter 5 Replication, Referrals, Searching, and SASL Explained

      1. More Than One Copy Is "a Good Thing"
      2. Distributing the Directory
      3. Advanced Searching Options
      4. Determining a Server's Capabilities
      5. Creating Custom Schema Files for slapd
      6. SASL and OpenLDAP

  2. Application Integration

    1. Chapter 6 Replacing NIS

      1. More About NIS
      2. Schemas for Information Services
      3. Information Migration
      4. The pam_ldap Module
      5. The nss_ldap Module
      6. OpenSSH, PAM, and NSS
      7. Authorization Through PAM
      8. Netgroups
      9. Security
      10. Automount Maps
      11. PADL's NIS/LDAP Gateway

    2. Chapter 7 Email and LDAP

      1. Representing Users
      2. Email Clients and LDAP
      3. Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs)

    3. Chapter 8 Standard Unix Services and LDAP

      1. The Directory Namespace
      2. An FTP/HTTP Combination
      3. User Authentication with Samba
      4. FreeRadius
      5. Resolving Hosts
      6. Central Printer Management

    4. Chapter 9 LDAP Interoperability

      1. Interoperability or Integration?
      2. Directory Gateways
      3. Cross-Platform Authentication Services
      4. Distributed, Multivendor Directories
      5. Metadirectories
      6. Push/Pull Agents for Directory Synchronization

    5. Chapter 10 Net::LDAP and Perl

      1. The Net::LDAP Module
      2. Connecting, Binding, and Searching
      3. Working with Net::LDAP::LDIF
      4. Updating the Directory
      5. Advanced Net::LDAP Scripting

  3. Appendixes

    1. Appendix A PAM and NSS

      1. Pluggable Authentication Modules
      2. Name Service Switch (NSS)

    2. Appendix B OpenLDAP Command-Line Tools

      1. Debugging Options
      2. Slap Tools
      3. LDAP Tools

    3. Appendix C Common Attributes and Objects

      1. Schema Files
      2. Attributes
      3. Object Classes

    4. Appendix D LDAP RFCs, Internet-Drafts, and Mailing Lists

      1. Requests for Comments
      2. Mailing Lists

    5. Appendix E slapd.conf ACLs

      1. What?
      2. Who?
      3. How Much?
      4. Examples

  1. Colophon

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