Red Hat Enterprise Directory Services and Authentication with Exam (RH424)

Manage and deploy directory services for Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems

Introduction to directory services

  • What is a directory?
  • LDAP: models, schema, and attributes
  • Object classes
  • LDIF

The LDAP naming model

  • Directory information trees and Distinguished Names
  • X.500 and "Internet" naming suffixes
  • Planning the directory hierarchy

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

Searching and modifying the LDAP directory

  • Using command-line utilities to search the directory
  • Search filter syntax
  • Updating the directory

Red Hat Directory Server: authentication and security

  • Configuring TLS security
  • Using access control instructions (ACIs)
  • ACIs and the Red Hat console

Linux user authentication with NSS and PAM

  • Understanding authentication and authorization
  • Name service switch (NSS)
  • Advanced pluggable authentication modules (PAM) configuration

Centralized user authentication with LDAP

  • Central account management with LDAP
  • Using migration scripts to migrate existing data into an LDAP server
  • LDAP user authentication

Kerberos and LDAP

  • Introduction to Kerberos
  • Configuring the Kerberos key distribution center (KDC) and clients
  • Configuring LDAP to support Kerberos

Directory referrals and replication

  • Referrals and replication
  • Single master configuration
  • Multiple master configuration
  • Planning for directory server availability

Cross-platform centralized identity management

  • Synchronizing Red Hat Directory Server with Active Directory
  • Managing users with Winbind and LDAP
  • Mapping attributes between Linux® and Microsoft Windows

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