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Summary: A great guide for implementing and integrating LDAP
Review: Anyone that has attempted to integrate LDAP with services such as Email, NIS, Samba, Printing, etc. knows how sparce the documentation on the Internet is, if you are lucky enough to find it. This book does a great job of describing how to implement LDAP and make the most of it! The author has a concise and easy to read style that makes for a quick read. If you are using or plan to use OpenLDAP, this book is a must. If you want to integrate the previously mentioned services with LDAP, even if not with OpenLDAP, this book is still very valuable.
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Summary: A great guide for implementing and integrating LDAP
Review: Anyone that has attempted to integrate LDAP with services such as Email, NIS, Samba, Printing, etc. knows how sparce the documentation on the Internet is, if you are lucky enough to find it. This book does a great job of describing how to implement LDAP and make the most of it! The author has a concise and easy to read style that makes for a quick read. If you are using or plan to use OpenLDAP, this book is a must. If you want to integrate the previously mentioned services with LDAP, even if not with OpenLDAP, this book is still very valuable.
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Summary: "Lightweight" LDAP book
Review: Great book!If you use LDAP in a serious way and need to REALLY understand the inner workings, get this book. It is clearly written, to the point, and very valuable!
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Summary: LDAP Administration for UNIX
Review: It covers LDAP installation and implementation (using OpenLDAP) for various services on UNIX platform, i.e. NIS, Email, Clients and Mail Transfer Agents (MTA), FTP and Web servers, Samba, FreeRadius, DNS, and Printer Management. A quick introduction on how to implement LDAP server for various services in your organisation.
It has one section on LDAP tool, Nett:LDAP using Perl. It touches on high level LDAP design and replication issues, not much on the design and lacking of LDAPv3 features such as DSML.
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Summary: Great basic implementation ideas, lacking in some areas
Review: The book starts with a section on a brief introduction of LDAP before moving in LDAPv3 overview. OpenLDAP takes two chapters, then a section of chapters on Application Integration. Letting LDAP replace NIS, integrating with email, Unix and LDAP, LDAP interoperability and LDAP and Perl finish the chapters off. There are some appendixes that include some of the common Attributes and Objects also. If you are using Windows and some LDAP application this book does not contain a lot of information for you specific to the OS, but is a great reference for LDAP overall. Most of the code examples rely on Unix understandings. The review of access and OpenLDAP applies directly to numerous systems in understanding how rights are applied. Replication and referrals is a great topic that is covered well for the beginner. For someone wanting advanced architecture ideas and designs, this chapter does not go deep enough for you. But I enjoyed it still letting me review and pick up a few items I was unaware of. LDAP administrators that are just starting out, or even ones that have been doing LDAP for some time and need to secure or expand the directory infrastructure could benefit from this book.
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Summary: Great basic implementation ideas, lacking in some areas
Review: The book starts with a section on a brief introduction of LDAP before moving in LDAPv3 overview. OpenLDAP takes two chapters, then a section of chapters on Application Integration. Letting LDAP replace NIS, integrating with email, Unix and LDAP, LDAP interoperability and LDAP and Perl finish the chapters off. There are some appendixes that include some of the common Attributes and Objects also. If you are using Windows and some LDAP application this book does not contain a lot of information for you specific to the OS, but is a great reference for LDAP overall. Most of the code examples rely on Unix understandings. The review of access and OpenLDAP applies directly to numerous systems in understanding how rights are applied. Replication and referrals is a great topic that is covered well for the beginner. For someone wanting advanced architecture ideas and designs, this chapter does not go deep enough for you. But I enjoyed it still letting me review and pick up a few items I was unaware of. LDAP administrators that are just starting out, or even ones that have been doing LDAP for some time and need to secure or expand the directory infrastructure could benefit from this book.
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Summary: Awesome LDAP System Administrators Guide
Review: This book is an awesome reference for someone interested in SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION (hence the title.) If you are a newbie looking for broader, philosophical reasoning or basic directory theory, this is NOT the book for you. If you know why you want a directory and understand the basics, then this book will definitely meet your needs. I was especially pleased with the no-nonsense approach, that got me up and running with a replicated directory, including referrals and references, by page 90. Excellent recommendations with enough detail to get the job done, along with great references to other resources and tools. The only thing that was lacking was the Samba integration chapter, which is 2.2 based, probably due to the book's age. While there are other resources out there, a second edition would still be nice.
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Summary: LDAP Without Hype: Get Started Today!
Review: This book is great! It covers using LDAP for user authentication and other configuration information as well as for data like phone directories. If you've not tried LDAP before, the book includes detailed information on installing OpenLDAP and configuring it. I'm already using LDAP, and I was happy to find some of the more obscure topics demystified by the author (for example, replication and SASL interaction). This book is for system administrators, not for programmers, and will turn you into the local LDAP guru in no time.
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Summary: Awesome LDAP System Administrators Guide
Review: This book is probably the best book I have ever read on OpenLDAP implimentation. The title is somewhat misleading in that it does not go into LDAP in general, including deep history, heavy schema development, etc. However, it covers the down and dirty of implimenting OpenLDAP in detail. It covers: -detailed slapd.conf configuration
-pam_ldap
-nss specific and pam specific configuration parameters in ldap.conf
-DNS implimentation with LDAP
-conversion tools This book is an excellent guide on actually putting LDAP to work, including design, configuration and implimentation. This book is NOT designed for people looking to impliment other LDAP software (iPlanet, etc). This book does not cover in depth enterprise level roll-out, research, and user feedback. But if you want a great book that covers configuration and usage of OpenLDAP and Linux..this IS the book for you.
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Summary: Excellent book on OpenLDAP
Review: This book is probably the best book I have ever read on OpenLDAP implimentation. The title is somewhat misleading in that it does not go into LDAP in general, including deep history, heavy schema development, etc. However, it covers the down and dirty of implimenting OpenLDAP in detail. It covers: -detailed slapd.conf configuration
-pam_ldap
-nss specific and pam specific configuration parameters in ldap.conf
-DNS implimentation with LDAP
-conversion tools This book is an excellent guide on actually putting LDAP to work, including design, configuration and implimentation. This book is NOT designed for people looking to impliment other LDAP software (iPlanet, etc). This book does not cover in depth enterprise level roll-out, research, and user feedback. But if you want a great book that covers configuration and usage of OpenLDAP and Linux..this IS the book for you.
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