Ldap

System Administration - LDAP

Table of Contents

• System Administration - LDAP

  • Table of Contents

  • Reference

  • Motivation

  • Installation - OpenLdap

Reference

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Motivation

Installation - OpenLdap

1. In Fedora/CentOS, we install openldap and

   yum install -y openldap openldap-servers
   

   • Openldap-servers is being installed along with slapd daemon, it support multiple of implementations that help in users authentication process.

2. Start the slapd daemon service:

   systemctl start slapd
   
   systemctl enable slapd
   

3. It uses port 389/tcp, so add this port to the firewall:

   firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=389/tcp
   
   firewall-cmd reload
   

4. Set the configuration for the LDAP directory, which is a tree of data Entry “DIT” (Directory Information Tree).

   • Entry is a collection of Attribute, where each attribute has name/value pair.

   • Each collection of attributes are defined under ObjectClass.

     Tree -> Collection of Entries
     Entry -> ObjectClass -> Attribute -> Name/Value
     Each Entry has a unique Identifier called *DN* (Distinguished Name)
     

   • To edit the configuration file:

     ls /etc/openldap/slapd.d/cn\=config