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LDAP System Administration View Larger Image | Gerald Carter
O'Reilly Media, Paperback, Published March 2003, 304 pages, ISBN 1565924916 | List Price: $39.95
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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
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.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 1 Average Customer Rating: Nov 5, 2003
Too Flitty
The book can't stay on one topic for long. It's a short book with very short chapters, and is very short on the kinds of details that one needs to really get started. Where is the discussion on SYNTAX? On groups? Short shrift is given to all. Definitely NOT for a beginner, but also not useful for intermediate or advanced. O-Reilly dropped the ball.
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