OpenLDAP Administrator Training

Learn how to install, configure, secure and manage an OpenLDAP server during this 3-day training course.

These days, identity management is everywhere, whether in web applications or within companies.

OpenLDAP is the leading open-source LDAP directory. It is deployed worldwide, and is used in telecoms applications by companies such as HP, Ericsson and Orange, as well as by the majority of French universities and the French Ministry of Education.

You will emerge from this OpenLDAP training with the skills you need to manage an OpenLDAP directory on a day-to-day basis, as well as the ability to respond to any requests you may have concerning security or the connection of applications to your OpenLDAP directory.

This hands-on OpenLDAP training course is aimed at anyone responsible for OpenLDAP directory management, who wants to learn how to implement OpenLDAP directories in their application or company.

At the end of the course, participants will leave with a set of ldif files enabling them to reproduce the exercises they have performed.

Terms and rates :

Course duration :
Face-to-face : 3 days or 21 hours
Remote video training : 9 p.m.

Rates :
Intra-company 3,900 euros excluding VAT in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany.
Intra video training : 2,900 Euros excl.

CNLESR members in France benefit from 10% discount

As soon as we receive your registration, we will contact you to schedule your training.

Objectives :

Understanding the LDAP protocol
Learn how to install OpenLDAP
Manage configuration backend cn=config
Managing schematics
Learn how to write OpenLDAP ACLs

Target audience :

System administrators
OpenLDAP directory managers

Prerequisites

Bring your own laptop
VirtualBox version 6 installed
Putty must be installed on a Windows workstation
Basic knowledge of the Linux system
How to use a text editor in console mode
Knowledge of ssh and sftp

Speaker:

Benoit Mortier

CEO of FusionDirectory

Day 1: Concept, definition and implementation of an OpenLDAP directory

● LDAP directory definition
○ Directory design: dead ends and best practices
○ Enterprise organization and LDAP directory
● LDAP-related concepts
○ Input, attribute
○ Object classes
○ The filter, the context
○ The DIT (Directory Information Tree)
● LDAP protocol
○ Main operations
○ Extended controls
● OpenLDAP implementation
○ OpenLDAP installation
○ Basic configuration
○ Schematics management
○ Backend management cn=config

Putting it into practice installation, configuration, schema setup, backend management cn=config

Day 2: Using and securing OpenLDAP

● Using OpenLDAP
○ Creating LDIF files
○ Managing directory entries in console mode: basic commands and online editor
○ Create search filters
○ How to read logs: optimization and debugging information
○ Backing up and restoring an OpenLDAP directory
● OpenLDAP security
○ OpenLDAP ACL entries
○ Certificate implementation: encryption via SSL and TLS
○ SASL configuration

Putting it into practice ldif file creation, editing/adding entries with console tools, reading logs

day 3: OpenLDAP replication

● OpenLDAP replication
○ Replication implementation
○ Setting up a provider / consumer architecture
○ Setting up a mirror mode architecture
● Integration with basic network services
○ Configuring PAM support with LDAP

Putting it into practice :Implementation of various replication modes, integration with PAM for user and group management