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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

2.2 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

6.10 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

8.5 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

Appendix C. Common Attributes and Objects

C.1 Schema Files

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

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