Documentation

This page collects a variety of links to documents which relate to PADL software.

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PADL Documents

• NIS/LDAP Gateway user guide
• Kerberos Authentication Plugin Release Notes
• Building nss_ldap on AIX

RFCs and Internet Drafts

• RFC 2307 - An Approach for Using LDAP as a Network Information Service
• draft-howard-rfc2307bis-01.txt - An Approach for Using LDAP as a Network Information Service (revised and unpublished)
• draft-joslin-config-schema-08.txt - A Configuration Schema for LDAP Based Directory User Agents
• draft-howard-namedobject-02.txt - A Structural Object Class for Arbitrary Auxiliary Object Classes
• draft-hedstrom-dhc-ldap-02.txt - DHCP Options for Locating LDAP Servers
• draft-ietf-asid-ldap-cache-01.txt - A Simple Caching Scheme for LDAP and X.500 Directories

Papers and Presentations

• Security with LDAP - a paper discussing pam_ldap and nss_ldap
• System Authentication using LDAP - a paper by Brad Marshall
• Authentication Project Report - integrating pam_ldap and nss_ldap with Novell Directory Services at the University of Western Sydney
• Different database methods in Heimdal - discusses PADL's LDAP backend for Heimdal
• Replacing NIS with Kerberos and LDAP - a presentation by Jason Heiss
• Tools to Migrate Infrastructure Workloads - IBM developerWorks Live! presentation

Documents

• LDAP Linux HOWTO - part of the Linux Documentation Project
• Configuring Your System to Authenticate Using OpenLDAP - RedHat Linux 7.2 documentation
• NIS to LDAP Transition: Exploring - review of PADL's NIS/LDAP Gateway by Sun
• LDAP-UX Integration - includes installation instructions for Hewlett Packard's licensed version of PADL's NIS/LDAP Gateway, as well as general documentation
• LDAPv3 HOWTO - detailed document on configuring OpenLDAP, OpenSSL, SASL and MIT Kerberos V
• LDAP and OpenLDAP - presentation of integrating OpenLDAP and Linux
• Active Directory and Linux - notes on integrating Active Directory (AD) and nss_ldap
• Linux-AD Integration - another article AD and nss_ldap
• Active Directory and nss_ldap - another article on AD and nss_ldap
• nsswitch for FreeBSD - notes on porting the nameservice switch to FreeBSD
• Understanding NDS-Based Account Management on Linux and Solaris - a document by Novell
• Authenticating Users to UNIX Systems with Novell eDirectory and LDAP - a document by Novell
• Windows Security and Directory Services for UNIX - a book by Microsoft

References

• OpenLDAP - an open source implementation of the LDAP protocol
• AD4Unix - a freely available plugin for managing POSIX account information in Active Directory
• Directory Administrator - an open source GNOME-based user and group management tool
• Symas - OpenLDAP, nss_ldap/pam_ldap, and other binary distributions