RH423 Red Hat Enterprise Directory Services and Authentication

Course Outline

1. Introduction to Directory Services
• What is a directory?
• LDAP: models, schema, and attributes
• Object classes
• LDIF
2. The LDAP Naming Model
• Directory information trees and Distingued Names
• X.500 and "Internet" naming suffixes
• Planning the directory hierarchy
3. Red Hat Directory Server: Basic Configuration
• Installation and setup of Red Hat Directory Server
• Using the Red Hat Console
• Using logging to monitor Red Hat Directory Server activity
• Backing up and restoring the directory
• Basic performance tuning with indexes
4. Red Hat Directory Server: Authentication and Security
• Configuring TLS security
• Using access control instructions (ACI's)
• ACI's and the Red Hat Console
5. Searching and Modifying the LDAP Directory
• Using command line utilities to search the directory
• Search filter syntax
• Updating the directory
• Using graphical LDAP client utilities
6. Linux User Authentication with NSS and PAM
• Understanding authentication and authorization
• Name service switch (NSS)
• Advanced pluggable authentication modules (PAM) configuration
7. Centralized User Authentication with LDAP
• Central account management with LDAP
• Using migration scripts to migrate existing data into an LDAP server
• LDAP user authentication
8. Kerberos and LDAP
• Introduction to Kerberos
• Configuring the Kerberos key distribution center (KDC) and clients
• Configuring LDAP to support Kerberos
• Access control with Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)
9. Directory Referrals and Replication
• Referrals and replication
• Single master configuration
• Multiple master configuration
• Planning for directory server availability
10. Authenticating Windows Clients
• Windows networking overview
• Configuring a Samba primary domain controller (PDC) using LDAP
11. Windows Domain Authentication and Linux Clients
• Active Directory servers
• Linux as a client
• Active Directory and NSS
• OpenLDAP
• Winbind