Category: Linux administration
LDAP configuration on Linux. Integrating Linux servers with company directory services. Linux as a LDAP server and as a client using external directories for authorization.
Duration
1 day
Agenda
- Introduction to directory services
- LDAP protocol, searching the directory
- Public LDAP directories
- Designing a consistent authorization infrastructure using a LDAP directory
- Dedicated client tools
- Examples of use in applications
- OpenLDAP
- installation and configuration
- security (encrypted communication between the server and clients)
- directory replication
- Configuring common applications for authorization using a directory:
- Linux (PAM and NSS), typowe system services
- HTTP server: Apache, Lighttpd
- Email services: Exim, Postfix, Dovecot, others (through SASL)
- Administration topics
- Migrating existing user accounts data
- Review of user-management tools: phpLDAPAdmin, LAM, migration-tools, smbldap-tools
Audience and prerequisites
This course is for Linux system and network administrators, who either want to connect their Linux servers to existing corporate directory services (to share user account information for example) or who want to setup their Linux servers as LDAP servers for the rest of the corporate network to use.
Participants are expected to have intermediate-level Linux system administration and network configuration skills.
Certificates
Course participants receive completion certificates signed by ALX.
See also:
- Linux administrator
- Advanced Linux administrator
- LPI 101. An introduction to Linux administration
- LPI 102. Linux administration and networking
- Building a modern CI / CD process using the Jenkins server
- Selected Linux network services
- LPI 201. Linux architecture and low-level configuration
- LPI 202. Selected network services and network security
- LPIC-2 exam prep course
- LPI 300: LDAP, Samba, Integration with MS Windows and Mixed Environments
- LPI 303: Cryptography, Access Control, Services and Network Security
- LPI 304: Linux Virtualization and High Availability
- E-mail server - Exim, anti-spam solutions
- E-mail server - Postfix
- Bash shell programming
- Advanced shell programming, Bash, AWK
- Linux backups
- Advanced network traffic and content filtering
- VPNs in theory and practice
- Bandwidth and Traffic Management (QoS) on Linux
- Server and network monitoring, SNMP, Nagios, Munin
- Apache HTTP server on Linux
- Bind domain name server on Linux
- Samba server on Linux
- Advanced Samba configuration (PDC, LDAP, replication)
- Linux virtualization
- Wireless networks and their security
- Digital signature and encryption with OpenSSL and GnuPG
- High availability: Linux Virtual Server and supporting technologies (HA1)
- NFS: Network File System on Linux
- Safe Internet in a computer lab
- Security components in Linux
- Linux - application and kernel debugging
- Linux - exploiting applications and operating system. Low level attacks.
- Linux - application security testing, searching for possible exploits. High-level attacks
- MySQL administration
