LDAP System Administration
by Gerald Carter

List Price: $39.95
Our Price: $16.51
You Save: $23.44 (59%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $14.99 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions

Book Summary Information

Book Reviews of LDAP System Administration

Book Review: Not what I had hoped for
Summary: 3 Stars

Summary of LDAP System Administration

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 upand 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.

Intranets Books

• Computers & Internet > Networking
• Networks, Protocols & APIs > LAN
• LDAP
• General
• Computer Science > Software Engineering > Information Systems
• General
• Software
• Microsoft
• Calendars > Foreign Language
• O'Reilly > Unix & Linux > General
• Linux
• Programming > Perl
• X Windows & Motif
• Network Administration