LDAP System Administration

However, the coverage of what directory services are could be deeper. The author acknowledges that some explanation is required, and provides some background information but not nearly enough. In a future edition I would like to see more coverage of directory schemas and more about the object types that can be stored in a directory. In addition, I would like to see coverage of the LDAP protocol itself. There is also a strong Unix bias, but this is not such a concern since there are plenty of dedicated books for Active Directory (including a good O'Reilly one).

As a bonus, there is a very good chapter for Perl developers using the Net::LDAP module. As a Java developer, I would have liked to have seen JNDI as well, but kudos even so to the author for remembering us.


An useful LDAP guide for system administrators   April 19, 2003
 10 out of 10 found this review helpful

Inside this book, you can found a lot of useful tricks and clear references. Perhaps is not a complete guide for LDAP administration, but covers the basics about LDIF, OID, tree structure -organization and replication-, indexes and performance tunning.
I found very useful the explanation about LDAP use in system integration: accounting issues for services(nss, pam), mail routing, and AD issues.
Provides useful scripts and explain a lot of "traps" about security integration and configuration: TLS, SASL, etc. I strongly recommend it for newies in LDAP admin.
Perhaps the subtitle should be "a guide to LDAP for System Administrators".