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Install, Configure, Build, and Integrate Secure Directory Services with OpenLDAP server in a network environment
Up-to-date with the latest OpenLDAP OpenLDAP serverSynchronizing releaseInstalling and configure multiple servers OpenLDAP for networkCreating custom LDAP schema to model your own informationIntegrating OpenLDAP with web application
In Detail
This book is an ideal introduction to using OpenLDAP for Application Developers and will also benefit System Administrators running OpenLDAP. The reader requires no knowledge of OpenLDAP, but even readers already familiar with the technology will find new things and techniques.
The book is organized into three main parts: the first section discusses the basics of LDAP directory services and the OpenLDAP server, the second focuses on building directory services with OpenLDAP, in the third part of this book, we look at how OpenLDAP is integrated with other applications and services on the network . This book not only demystifies OpenLDAP, but gives System Administrators and Application Developers a solid understanding of how to use OpenLDAP's directory services.
OpenLDAP directory server is a mature product that has been around (in one form or another) since 1995. Client applications connect to OpenLDAP using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and then can search the directory and (if they have access to appropriate) modify and manipulate records.
LDAP servers are most often used to provide network-based authentication services for users, but there are many other uses for an LDAP server, including using the directory as an address book, database control, organization tools, or even as a network object store for the application.
What you will learn from this book?
Installing a binary package and the building of sourceConfiguring OpenLDAP and LDAP verification serverBuilding an initial directory tree in LDIF fileLoading, modify, and find passwords recordsSetting directory and authentication against directoryConfiguring Access Control Lists (ACLs) Configuring multiple database back endsSecuring connection network-based directory with SSL and TLSAdvanced configuration and performance tuning settingsCreating and implement schemes and sophisticated custom LDAP schemasCreating ACLsUsing OpenLDAP as proxy for other LDAP caching with Cache Proxy serversAdding overlayUsing hybrid layer transparency to create and configure the LDAP administration cacheInstalling web-base multiple directory servers synchronized with suiteKeeping SyncReplUsing Apache OpenLDAP for authentication
Approach
This book has been written from the viewpoint of application developers, dealing with topics that will be most important to help application developers understand OpenLDAP, and get it set as safely and as quickly as possible.
Focusing on practical application of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, this tutorial is aimed at IS professionals and software developers who are responsible for obtaining the maximum potential from their directory by integrating them with existing processes and applications. As an Internet standard for directory services, LDAP is accepted as a critical service and is ready to become an important tool to access information remotely.
Until now, it has been difficult to find the correct source of information about LDAP and directory server implementations: books on subjects that are too specific product, and the search results on the Web in information overload. ABC of LDAP: How to Install, Run, and Administer LDAP Services strike the right balance, providing a synopsis of the fundamentals LDAP without implementation.This especially wrapped up in one book is for network and system administrators who want to begin using LDAP more extensively.
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