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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® distributions and Mac OS® 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
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4.0 out of 5 stars
LDAP System Administration review,
By Bill Strosberg, CISSP (Orleans, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: LDAP System Administration (Paperback)
This book provides a good introduction to implementing OpenLDAP. I found the authors "jumped" tangentially around quite a bit topically, rather than following an idea from start to finish. It was a bit disconcerting following the examples and being interrupted with background material constantly. This may be an editorial problem, as usually backreferences to material are enclosed in callout boxes, while the topical flow continues.I was surprised at the editing and presentation - it wasn't up to usual O'Reilly standards. I was disappointed with the lack of schema level information - part of what I wanted from the book was an understanding of merging multiple schemas to provide cross -client compatibility of directory service usage - i.e. how can LDAP provide services compatible with Mozilla, Eudora, Outlook etc. with common data storage. All in all, I learned a lot from this book, but I am still needing more material to complete the project I am working on - I'll have to find better documentation on schema considerations. Worth the price, but in need of better editing and a new edition.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great basic implementation ideas, lacking in some areas,
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This review is from: LDAP System Administration (Paperback)
The book starts with a section on a brief introduction of LDAP before moving in LDAPv3 overview. OpenLDAP takes two chapters, then a section of chapters on Application Integration. Letting LDAP replace NIS, integrating with email, Unix and LDAP, LDAP interoperability and LDAP and Perl finish the chapters off. There are some appendixes that include some of the common Attributes and Objects also.If you are using Windows and some LDAP application this book does not contain a lot of information for you specific to the OS, but is a great reference for LDAP overall. Most of the code examples rely on Unix understandings. The review of access and OpenLDAP applies directly to numerous systems in understanding how rights are applied. Replication and referrals is a great topic that is covered well for the beginner. For someone wanting advanced architecture ideas and designs, this chapter does not go deep enough for you. But I enjoyed it still letting me review and pick up a few items I was unaware of. LDAP administrators that are just starting out, or even ones that have been doing LDAP for some time and need to secure or expand the directory infrastructure could benefit from this book.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome LDAP System Administrators Guide,
By A Customer
This review is from: LDAP System Administration (Paperback)
This book is an awesome reference for someone interested in SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION (hence the title.) If you are a newbie looking for broader, philosophical reasoning or basic directory theory, this is NOT the book for you. If you know why you want a directory and understand the basics, then this book will definitely meet your needs. I was especially pleased with the no-nonsense approach, that got me up and running with a replicated directory, including referrals and references, by page 90. Excellent recommendations with enough detail to get the job done, along with great references to other resources and tools. The only thing that was lacking was the Samba integration chapter, which is 2.2 based, probably due to the book's age. While there are other resources out there, a second edition would still be nice.
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