LDAP system administration / Gerald Carter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Gerald.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer network protocols.

LDAP (Computer network protocol).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, 2003.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 file

Contents:

LDAP System Administration; Part II : Application Integration; Part III: Appendixes; Conventions Used in This Book; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments; I. LDAP Basics; 1.2. What Is LDAP?; 1.2.2. Directory; 1.2.3. Access Protocol; 1.3. LDAP Models; 2. LDAPv3 Overview; 2.1.2. Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Program . . .; 2.2. What Is an Attribute?; 2.2.2. What Does the Value of the objectClass Attribute Mean?; 2.3. What Is the dc Attribute?; 2.4. Schema References; 2.5. Authentication; 2.5.2. Simple Authentication; 2.5.3. Simple Authentication Over SSL/TLS

2.5.4. Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)2.6. Distributed Directories; 2.7. Continuing Standardization; 3. OpenLDAP; 3.2. Software Requirements; 3.2.2. SSL/TLS Libraries; 3.2.3. Database Backend Modules; 3.2.4. SASL Libraries; 3.3. Compiling OpenLDAP 2; 3.4. OpenLDAP Clients and Servers; 3.5. The slapd.conf Configuration File; 3.5.2. Logging; 3.5.3. SASL Options; 3.5.4. SSL/TLS Options; 3.5.5. More Security-Related Parameters; 3.5.6. Serving Up Data; 3.6. Access Control Lists (ACLs); 4. OpenLDAP: Building a Company White Pages; 4.2. Defining the Schema; 4.3. Updating slapd.conf

4.4. Starting slapd4.5. Adding the Initial Directory Entries; 4.5.2. Updating What Is Already There; 4.6. Graphical Editors; 5. Replication, Referrals, Searching, and SASL Explained; 5.1.2. Replication in a Nutshell; 5.1.3. Configuring the Master Server; 5.1.4. Configuring the Replica Server; 5.1.5. slurpd&s replogfile; 5.2. Distributing the Directory; 5.3. Advanced Searching Options; 5.3.2. Limiting Your Searches; 5.4. Determining a Server&s Capabilities; 5.5. Creating Custom Schema Files for slapd; 5.6. SASL and OpenLDAP; II. Application Integration; 6.2. Schemas for Information Services

6.3. Information Migration6.4. The pam_ldap Module; 6.5. The nss_ldap Module; 6.6. OpenSSH, PAM, and NSS; 6.7. Authorization Through PAM; 6.7.2. One User and a Group of Hosts; 6.8. Netgroups; 6.9. Security; 6.10. Automount Maps; 6.11. PADL&s NIS/LDAP Gateway; 7. Email and LDAP; 7.2. Email Clients and LDAP; 7.2.2. Pine 4; 7.2.3. Eudora; 7.2.4. Microsoft Outlook Express; 7.3. Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs); 7.3.1.2. Aliases; 7.3.1.3. Mail routing using LDAP; 7.3.2. Postfix; 7.3.3. Exim; 8. Standard Unix Services and LDAP; 8.2. An FTP/HTTP Combination; 8.2.2. Apache

8.3. User Authentication with Samba8.3.2. Adding and Using a sambaAccount; 8.4. FreeRadius; 8.5. Resolving Hosts; 8.6. Central Printer Management; 9. LDAP Interoperability; 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; 10. Net::LDAP and Perl; 10.2. Connecting, Binding, and Searching; 10.3. Working with Net::LDAP::LDIF; 10.4. Updating the Directory; 10.4.2. Deleting Entries; 10.4.3. Modifying Entries; 10.4.3.2. Pushing an updated entry back to the server

10.4.3.3. Modifying directory entries

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780596518691

0596518692

9780596551919

0596551916

OCLC:

609841075