Introduction to LDAP

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Table of Contents

Introduction to LDAP

Agenda

Agenda (contd.)

Directory in German Research environment

What is a Directory?

What is a Directory?

So what really is the Directory

What kind of data can you store?

What is X.500?

X.500

Standardization boards

History of the X.500 standard

History contd.

Parts of the X.500 Standard

History of X.500: Projects

What was X.500 intended for?

Qualities of X.500

X.500 Information Tree

Directory Information Tree (DIT)

DN Distinguished Name

How is the information stored?

X.500 Information Model

Special Attributes

Directory Information Base

Example:

Some Objectclasses

Open structure

X.500 Client Server model

Distribution of the data among DSAs

Directory Server Protocols

Directory Server Protocols

Some more X.500 Features

What is LDAP?

History of LDAP: LDAP v1

1993: LDAP v2 Proposed Standard

1995: LDAP v2 Draft Standard

1997: LDAP v3 Proposed Standard

1997 LDAPv3 contd.

Who talks LDAP?

LDAP connectivity

LDAP Features

LDAP Information Model

LDAP Naming Model

LDAP Functional Model

LDAP Search Parameters

LDAP Search Parameters contd.

Search Filter Operators

Search Filter Operators (contd.)

Search Filter Extensions

Search filter combinations

Search filter special characters

LDAP URL (RFC 2255)

LDAPv3 Extension mechanisms

LDAPv3 Extension mechanisms contd.

LDAPv3 Extension mechanisms contd.

LDAPv3 Extension Standardization

RFC 2589

RFC 2589 contd.

RFC 2596

RFC 2649

RFC 2649 contd.

RFC 2696

LDAP Security Model

LDAP work on X.509: TLS

LDAP Authentication

LDAP Authentication contd.

IETF WG LDAPbis

Current LDAPbis Drafts

Current LDAPbis Drafts contd.

Current LDAPext drafts

Access Control

Access Control Requirements

Access Control Model

Basic ACI Attributes

Basic ACI Attributes contd.

Basic ACI Attributes contd.

Basic ACI Attributes contd.

ACI Examples:

ACI Examples contd.

LDAP Data Interchange Format LDIF

Schema definition

Replication

Replication

Non Standard LDAP Replication

Replication log file format

How to find LDAP Servers

Client configuration

Well known DNS aliases

Referrals

DNS SRV Records

DNS SRV Records contd.

Service Location Protocol

What can we do with Directories

LDAP for NIS

LDAP for NIS

LDAP for unified authentication

LDAP for unified auth.

Common Indexing Protocol CIP

CIP contd.

Distributed Index system

The LDAP Indexing System

Index Gathering

Referral Server Architecture

Query routing

Security Requirements

Security Solutions

What can the index system be used for?

TF-LSD

TF-LSD cont.

Related TERENA activities

DSML

DSML Example

DSML Example contd.

PKI and Directory

PGP

Directory as Key Server Requirements

PGP key server

PKSD Problems

Problems of the Web of trust

New concepts for PGP key server

LDAP PGP-Keyserver requirements

Process of standardization

Status of LDAP PGP key server

A PGP key displayed (1)

A PGP key displayed (2)

What else can you do with it?

Distributed Metadata

Isaac Network

Isaak Project (contd.)

IMesh Toolkit

IMesh Toolkit (contd.)

Policy repository

What else can you do?

Questions?

Author: Administrator