LDAP in the Solaris Operating Environment

Michael Haines is a principal staff engineer for Sun Microsystems, Inc. He started his career in the CTE engineering group and has been at Sun almost 14 years. Michael has held various engineering positions within Sun, and he is the coauthor of the Sun BluePrints Solaris and LDAP Naming Services--Deploying LDAP in the Enterprise, published in 2001. Tom Bialaski is a senior staff engineer in the Enterprise Engineering group at Sun Microsystems. He began his career at Sun as a systems engineer almost 20 years ago and has held various customer-focused engineering positions since then. Tom is the coauthor of the Sun BluePrints Solaris and LDAP Naming Services--Deploying LDAP in the Enterprise, published in 2001.

Acknowledgments.


Preface.


1. Introducing LDAP in the Solaris Operating Environment.


Introduction. The Big Picture. LDAP Terms and Concepts.



2. Assessing Your Needs for Naming Service Transition and Consolidation.


What Consolidation Means. Business Case for Transitioning to LDAP. Understanding Legacy Naming Services. Migration Planning.



3. Defining Directory Service Security Architecture.


Understanding Directory Server Security. Understanding the SASL Mechanism. GSSAPI Authentication and Kerberos v5. TLSv1/SSL Protocol Support. Enhanced Solaris OE PAM Features. Secured LDAP Client Backport to the Solaris 8 OE.



4. Deploying Solaris OE LDAP Naming Services.


Understanding the DIT. Differentiating Server and Client Versions. Configuring Sun ONE Directory Servers and Clients. Automating Installations. Choosing High-Availability Options. Troubleshooting Tips.



5. Migrating Legacy Data to LDAP.


Mapping Naming Service Data to LDAP Entries. Running ldapaddent. Importing Other Databases. LDAP to NIS+ Gateway.



6. Management Tools and Toolkits.


Command-Line Tools. GUI-based Tools. Toolkits and LDAP APIs.



7. Performing Administrative Tasks.


Identifying Directory Management Tasks. Directory Data Backup and Recovery. Managing Client Profiles and Proxy Agent Accounts. Managing Directory Data Replication. Monitoring Directory Services. Managing Users and Groups. Extending the Directory Schema.



8. Selecting Storage for Optimum Directory Server Performance.


Software Characteristics. Survey of Sun Storage Subsystems. Introduction to the Sun StorEdge T3b Storage Array. RAID Explained for Directory Administrators.



9. Performing Directory Server Benchmarks.


Why Benchmark? Creating a Benchmark Configuration. Creating LDIF for Benchmarks. Using SLAMD, the Distributed Load Generation Engine. Directory Server Performance Tuning.



10. Emerging Directory Technologies.


DSMLv2 Interface. Sun ONE Identity Synchronization for the Windows Technology. NIS to LDAP Gateway.



A: LDAP Standards Information.


B: LDAP v3 Result Codes.


C: Using snoop with LDAP.


D: Solaris OE 9 PAM Architecture.


Glossary.


Index.