ldap system administration

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ldap system administration

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 Colophon