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 files), you can make changes in only one place and have
all your systems immediately "see" the updated information.Practically
platform independent, this book uses the widely available, open source
OpenLDAP 2 directory server as a premise for examples, showing you how
to use it to help you manage your configuration information effectively
and securely. OpenLDAP 2 ships with most Linux(R) distributions and Mac
OS(R) X, and can be easily downloaded for most Unix-based systems. After
introducing the workings of a directory service and the LDAP protocol,
all aspects of building and installing OpenLDAP, plus key ancillary
packages like SASL and OpenSSL, this book discusses:
- Configuration and access control
- Distributed directories; replication and referral
- Using OpenLDAP to replace NIS
- Using OpenLDAP to manage email configurations
- Using LDAP for abstraction with FTP and HTTP servers, Samba, and
Radius
- Interoperating with different LDAP servers, including Active Directory
- Programming using Net:: LDAP
If you want to be a master of your domain, LDAP System Administration
will help you get up and running quickly regardless of which LDAP
version you use. After reading this book, even with no previous LDAP
experience, you'll be able to integrate a directory server into
essential network services such as mail, DNS, HTTP, and SMB/CIFS.
