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For all the work and time invested in using LDAP, not enough time has been spent designing the layout and the logic of directories. End users and system architects often do not give appropriate attention to the deployment of LDAP as a standards-based system with interfacing ability. Thus, many of LDAPs best features-especially OpenLDAP-become unusable.
As a remedy, Deploying OpenLDAP delves into the logic, theories and fundamentals of directories. The text focuses on open standards, rather than proprietary systems, which are expensive and incompatible with other systems. If you already know advanced programming implementation, but don't fully understand how all pieces fit together, then this book will go beyond explaining "what is," and instead show you "how to."
List of contents
Background: X.500; The Birth of Directories; The Death of Directories; The Birth of LDAP at umich; Rapid Acceptance of LDAP as a Standard.- Data Definition: Schema; Attributes; Objectclasses; OID's; Directory Information Tree; Data Placement.- Implementation: Sizing; Installation; Configuration Parameters - High Level; Configuration Parameters - Specific to OpenLDAP; Configuration Parameters - Automation; Replication; Security (might want to be a new section, or could be part of this) and Access Control.- Integration: Analysis; Meta Directories; Importing Data and Becoming the New Owner; Specific Integration Projects Could Be Listed Here. Common Goals Would Be: Email System - Server, Email System - Client, Proprietary Databases/Directories d. NIS/NIS+?, Common Products Supporting LDAP.- Programming and Scripting: PerLDAP?; ldapsearch/ldapmodify.- Ideas, Good and Bad: LDAP as a Replacement for a Relational Database; LDAP as X.500; LDAP with no Room to Grow/Flat LDAP.
About the author
Tom Jackiewicz is responsible for global LDAP and e-mail architecture at a Fortune 100 company. Over the past 12 years, he has worked on the e-mail and LDAP capabilities of the Palm VII, helped architect many large-scale ISPs servicing millions of active e-mail users, and audited security for a number of Fortune 500 companies. Jackiewicz has held management, engineering, and consulting positions at Applied Materials, Motorola, and Winstar GoodNet. Jackiewicz has also published articles on network security and monitoring, IT infrastructure, Solaris, Linux, DNS, LDAP, and LDAP security. He lives in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood, where he relies on public transportation plus a bicycle to transport himself to the office fashionably late.
Summary
For all the work and time invested in using LDAP, not enough time has been spent designing the layout and the logic of directories. End users and system architects often do not give appropriate attention to the deployment of LDAP as a standards-based system with interfacing ability. Thus, many of LDAPs best features—especially OpenLDAP—become unusable.
As a remedy, Deploying OpenLDAP delves into the logic, theories and fundamentals of directories. The text focuses on open standards, rather than proprietary systems, which are expensive and incompatible with other systems. If you already know advanced programming implementation, but don't fully understand how all pieces fit together, then this book will go beyond explaining “what is,” and instead show you “how to.”
