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The ABCs of LDAP: How to Install, Run, and Administer LDAP Services

ISBN: 0849313465
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2003
Pages: 149

Authors: Reinhard E. Voglmaier

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• Table of Contents
• BackCover
• The ABCs of LDAP-How to Install, Run, and Administer LDAP Services
• Preface
• Advantages of Directories
• Directory Server Implementations
• Why This Book?
• A Little Road Map
• Chapter 1: The LDAP Protocol
• Directories and Directory Server
• Network Protocols
• Internet Standards: RFCs
• DAP: X.500 Standard
• Finally ... LDAP
• LDAP: How It Works
• Under the Hood: The Database Holding Information
• Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 2: LDAP Basics
• Example: An Enterprise with a Few Departments
• Objects in LDAP: Object Classes, Attributes, and Schema
• Server Configuration
• First Steps with LDAP
• Updating a Directory with a Batch Process
• The LDIF Standard
• Ldapsearch Revisited: Search Filter
• LDAP: Is This a Protocol?
• Your Favorite Browser Speaks LDAP
• Conclusion
• Chapter 3: LDAP Models
• Information Model
• Naming Model
• Functional Model
• Security Model
• Chapter 4: LDAP: Some Practical Details
• Directory Schema Revisited
• Indexes
• Directory Schema Revisited
• Indexes
• LDIF
• LDAP URLs
• Differences between LDAP (v2) and LDAP (v3)
• Conclusion: Work in Progress
• Chapter 5: Distributed Architectures
• Introduction to Replication and Partitioning
• Data Distribution between LDAP and Non-LDAP Systems
• Partitioning
• Replication
• Data Distribution between LDAP and Non-LDAP Systems
• DSML
• Conclusion
• Chapter 6: LDAP APIs
• LDAP and PHP
• Perl and LDAP
• The C LDAP API
• The Java LDAP API
• What Is Missing
• Chapter 7: LDAP Directory-Server Administration
• Getting the Directory Server Up and Running
• Securing Your LDAP Server
• LDAP Server Configuration
• Load the Data
• Log Files
• Starting and Stopping the Server
• Backup and Recovery
• Service-Level Agreement
• Backup Methods
• System Monitoring
• User Administration
• LDAP Users, Groups, and UNIX
• Administration Utilities
• Chapter 8: LDAP and Web Services
• LDAP URLs
• Application Servers
• Accessing an LDAP Server via an Application Server
• Gateways
• Web Server Authentication
• LDAP and the Web: A Case Study
• Conclusion
• Chapter 9: The Design of Directory Services
• Introduction
• Directory Life Cycle
• Planning of Directory Services
• Design of Directory Services
• Data Design
• Schema Design
• Tree Design
• Partitioning
• Replication
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: Acronyms
• Appendix B: LDAP Requests for Comments and Drafts
• Comments about the Most Important LDAP RFCs
• List of LDAP RFCs
• Work in Progress
• LDAP (v3) Revision (ldapbis)
• LDAP DuplicationReplicationUpdate Protocols (Idup)
• Appendix C: Useful Links
• LDAP Clients
• OIDs and Standards
• Tutorials and How-Tos
• Security
• SNMP
• LDAP API
• LDAP Server Implementations
• Appendix D: Standards
• Attribute Types
• Appendix E: Configuration of OpenLDAP
• Configuration Files
• Configuration File of the OpenLDAP Server
• The Global Section
• Back-End and Database Sections
• Appendix F: Playing with Replication in OpenLDAP
• Appendix G: Playing with OpenLDAP Proxy Server
• What We Will Need
• Compiling the OpenLDAP Proxy
• Running the OpenLDAP Proxy
• Further Capabilities
• The Meta Back End
• Index
• Index_B
• Index_C
• Index_D
• Index_E
• Index_F
• Index_G
• Index_H
• Index_I
• Index_J
• Index_K
• Index_L
• Index_M
• Index_N
• Index_O
• Index_P
• Index_Q
• Index_R
• Index_S
• Index_T
• Index_U
• Index_S
• Index_T
• Index_U
• Index_V
• Index_W
• Index_X
• Index_Y
• List of Figures