[Speakers] Repeats

Bruce Smith bruce at armintl.com
Thu Sep 30 09:02:21 EDT 2004


> >>>>If you could pick a few PAST KLUG presentations...which ones would it be?
> >>>LDAP for the otherwise uninitiated.
> >>>Not the 400 slide version. IMO folks need to know how to get started....
> >So:
> >
> >1.) What is a "Directory Services"
> >2.) What is LDAP / What is a DSA
> >3.) OpenLDAP
> >4.) The hierarchical model
> >5.) Schema
> >6.) Loading data (converting /etc/passed, /etc/group, etc...)
> >7.) Configuring NSS & PAM
> >8.) Setting up permissions
> >
> >That would be your rock bottom LDAP installation.  Or does 6 & 7 not
> >really fit?  You can certainly run a DSA that doesn't provide the local
> >id map.
> 7 and 8 are probably very helpful examples. Maybe talk about roving profiles
> as well.

As much as I hate to admit it, I agree with Bob on this one.

I'd like to see LDAP part II.  Assume the LDAP server is up and running
and the data is loaded in a standard password schema.

Now, what do we do with it?  How do we get various services to
authenticate to it?  How do we keep all passwords in sync?  How do we
maintain it?  How do users lookup email addresses with it?  How can
sendmail benefit from it?  Generally, how do we _use_ our LDAP service?

 - BS




More information about the Speakers mailing list