 | Level: Intermediate Sean A. Walberg (sean@ertw.com), Senior Network Engineer
04 Mar 2008 Welcome to the next step in studying for the Linux certification
exam 301. This tutorial series serves as a comprehensive self-study guide so you can
take the exams with confidence. And even if you're not preparing for Linux
certification at this time, this series helps you build fundamental skills on Linux
systems administration. In this tutorial (the third in a series
of six tutorials on exam 301 topics),
Sean Walberg walks you through configuring a Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server, including access control, security, and
performance. By the end of this tutorial, you'll know about LDAP server
configuration.
Proceed through the tutorials in sequence, or choose your topic of interest, from
the
entire
set of Linux certification tutorials on developerWorks.
In this tutorial
- Plan and implement access control lists.
- Set up OpenLDAP to replicate data between multiple servers.
- Configure encrypted access to the LDAP server, and restrict access at the
firewall level.
- Measure the performance of your LDAP server, and tune for maximum
performance.
- Understand the basic slapd.conf configuration directives, and become
familiar with the basic
slapd command-line
options.
Objectives
This tutorial is organized according to the specific objectives of the
LPI exam for this topic. This tutorial can help you study for certification—or
simply build a solid foundation in Linux system administration.
Prerequisites
To get the most from this tutorial, you should have an advanced knowledge of
Linux and a working Linux system on which to practice the commands covered. If your fundamental Linux skills are a bit rusty, you may want to first review
the
tutorials for the LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 exams.
System requirements
To follow along with the examples in these tutorials, you'll need a Linux
workstation with the OpenLDAP package and support for PAM. Most modern
distributions meet these requirements.
Duration
More than 2 hours
Formats html, pdf
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