Book Review: LDAP System Administration
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I finished this
book, by Gerald Carter, over
the weekend while on a flight. It is not a huge read (under 300 pages)
but includes a lot of code pieces and samples of commands.
The book starts with a section on a brief
introduction of LDAP before moving in LDAPv3 overview. OpenLDAP takes
two chapters, then a section of chapters on Application Integration. Letting
LDAP replace NIS, integrating with email, Unix and LDAP, LDAP interoperability
and LDAP and Perl finish the chapters off. There are some appendixes
that include some of the common Attributes and Objects also.
If you are using Windows and some LDAP
application this book does not contain a lot of information for you specific
to the OS, but is a great reference for LDAP overall. Most of the
code examples rely on Unix understandings. The review of access and
OpenLDAP applies directly to numerous systems in understanding how rights
are applied.
Replication and referrals is a great topic
that is covered well for the beginner. For someone wanting advanced
architecture ideas and designs, this chapter does not go deep enough for
you. But I enjoyed it still letting me review and pick up a few items
I was unaware of.
LDAP administrators that are just starting
out, or even ones that have been doing LDAP for some time and need to secure
or expand the directory infrastructure could benefit from this book.
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On Sunday, July 18th, 2004 by Chris Miller
