Red Hat Enterprise Directory Services and Authentication

Contents:
1. Introduction to Directory Services
o What is a directory?
o LDAP: models, schema, and attributes
o Object classes
o LDIF
2. The LDAP Naming Model
o Directory information trees and Distingued Names
o X.500 and "Internet" naming suffixes
o Planning the directory hierarchy
3. Red Hat Directory Server: Basic Configuration
o Installation and setup of Red Hat Directory Server
o Using the Red Hat Console
o Using logging to monitor Red Hat Directory Server activity
o Backing up and restoring the directory
o Basic performance tuning with indexes
4. Searching and Modifying the LDAP Directory
o Using command line utilities to search the directory
o Search filter syntax
o Updating the directory
5. Red Hat Directory Server: Authentication and Security
o Configuring TLS security
o Using access control instructions (ACI's)
o ACI's and the Red Hat Console
6. Linux User Authentication with NSS and PAM
o Understanding authentication and authorization
o Name service switch (NSS)
o Advanced pluggable authentication modules (PAM) configuration
7. Centralized User Authentication with LDAP
o Central account management with LDAP
o Using migration scripts to migrate existing data into an LDAP server
o LDAP user authentication
8. Kerberos and LDAP
o Introduction to Kerberos
o Configuring the Kerberos key distribution center (KDC) and clients
o Configuring LDAP to support Kerberos
9. Directory Referrals and Replication
o Referrals and replication
o Single master configuration
o Multiple master configuration
o Planning for directory server availability
10. Cross-Platform Centralized Identity Management
o Synchronizing Red Hat Directory Server with Active Directory
o Managing users with Winbind and LDAP
o Mapping attributes between Linux and Windows