LDAP System Administration

Customer Reviews

Pretty good, although could have been deeper - By: Chris Williams, 14 Jun 2003
First off, the coverage of administering LDAP, in particular the OpenLDAP server, is excellent. Choosing to focus on OpenLDAP is wise since commercial directory service products tend to cost a lot of money & aren't things that you can casuallly play with (or, as in my case, develop software against). His chapters on putting directory services to work - using LDAP ro replace NIS, using it for authentication & integration with other LDAP services - are very good as well.

However, the coverage of what directory services are could be deeper. The author acknowledges that some explanation is required, & provides some background information but not nearly enough. In a future edition I would like to see more coverage of directory schemas & more about the object types that can be stored in a directory. In addition, I would like to see coverage of the LDAP protocol itself. There is also a strong Unix bias, but this is not such a concern since there are plenty of dedicated books for Active Directory (including a good O'Reilly one).

As a bonus, there is a very good chapter for Perl developers using the Net::LDAP module. As a Java developer, I would have liked to have seen JNDI as well, but kudos even so to the author for remembering us.

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An useful LDAP guide for system administrators - By: Ignacio Coupeau, 19 Apr 2003
Inside this book, you can found a lot of useful tricks & clear references. Perhaps is not a complete guide for LDAP administration, but covers the basics about LDIF, OID, tree structure -organization & replication-, indexes & performance tunning.
I found very useful the explanation about LDAP use in system integration: accounting issues for services(nss, pam), mail routing, & AD issues.
Provides useful scripts & explain a lot of "traps" about security integration & configuration: TLS, SASL, etc. I strongly recommend it for newies in LDAP admin.
Perhaps the subtitle should be "a guide to LDAP for System Administrators".

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