LDAP System Administration | 
 enlarge | Author: Gerald Carter
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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ISBN: 1565924916
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.62
EAN: 9781565924918
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Publication Date: March 20, 2003
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 Pretty good, although could have been deeper June 14, 2003
Chris Williams
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
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 and aren't things that you can casually 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 and 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, and provides some background information but not nearly enough. In a future edition I would like to see more coverage of directory schemas and 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.
 An useful LDAP guide for system administrators April 19, 2003
Ignacio Coupeau
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Inside this book, you can found a lot of useful tricks and clear references. Perhaps is not a complete guide for LDAP administration, but covers the basics about LDIF, OID, tree structure -organization and replication-, indexes and performance tunning.
I found very useful the explanation about LDAP use in system integration: accounting issues for services(nss, pam), mail routing, and AD issues.
Provides useful scripts and explain a lot of "traps" about security integration and 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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