Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

Sites

• OpenLdap site
• PADL sofware
• gq, a gtk ldap client

Documentation

• An introduction to LDAP
very short Introduction to Directories and the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
• LDAP tutorial
• An LDAP Roadmap & FAQ
• Slapd
• LDAP shell commands
• http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/
• LDAP for Rocketscientists
• Netscape directory server
• Re: Creating "symbolic-links" in the ldap-tree
• Netscape Directory Server Administrator's Guide
• Netscape Directory SDK Programmer's Guide
• LDAP based nameserver
• LDAP Documentation
• ldap talk, describes using browser too
• Choosing schemas
• Perl and ldap
  • PerlMonth - Net::LDAP by Mark Wilcox - Issue 11
  • Linux Today: PerlMonth: Searching LDAP Servers with Net::LDAP
  • Perl-LDAP Homepage
  • PerLDAP homepage
• Qmail and ldap
• Proftpd and ldap
  • mod_ldap for proftpd

LDAP-related RFCs

• RFC-1777 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
• RFC-1558 A String Representation of LDAP Search Filters
• RFC-1778 The String Representation of Standard Attribute Syntaxes
• RFC-1779 A String Representation of Distringuished Names
• RFC-1798 Connectionless LDAP
• RFC-1823 The LDAP Application Program Interface
• RFC-1959 An LDAP URL Format

LDAP authentication

• PAM/LDAP
• LDAP Authentication and Session HOWTO
• Authenticating with LDAP
• SAAS - Guide to using LDAP with PAM on Linux
• Configuring Your System to Authenticate Using OpenLDAP
• LDAP Implementation HOWTO
• A Linux-PAM page
• http://www.padl.com/index.html
• MESD/K12Linux quick guide to LDAP
• Linux Authentication Using OpenLDAP, Part One
• SecurityFocus home infocus: Linux Authentication Using OpenLDAP, Part One
• SecurityFocus home infocus: Authentication on Linux Using Open LDAP, Part Two
• http://www.raphinou.com/ldaps/LDAP-SSL.HOWTO
• SASL: Simple Authentication and Security Layer
• Kerberos page
• LDAP Authentication Part 2
• The Linux-PAM System Administrators' Guide
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/FAQ
• ldap authentication howto?
• sec ure: intro to ldap 1 - overview
• Re: ldap authentication howto?
• SSL/TLS and SSL/TLS wrappers for LDAP
• System Authentication using LDAP
• http://www.raphinou.com/ldaps/LDAP-SSL.HOWTO
• SSL Certificates HOWTO

Most common symbols

C

countryname

DC

Domain Component

ST

StateOrProvinceName

O

OrganizationName

DN

distinguished name, name that identifies a record
In any entry's DN, the leftmost component is called the relative distinguished name (RDN).

CN

common name

OU

Organizational UnitName

SN

surname

check directory:
ldapsearch -s base -b cn=monitor 'objectclass=*'
retrieve entries:
ldapseach -b "o=MYORG, c=US" "objectclass=*"


ldap://croky/dc=foobar,dc=com??sub?cn=U8