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. Searching and Modifying the LDAP Directory
• Using command line utilities to search the directory
• Search filter syntax
• Updating the directory
5. Red Hat Directory Server: Authentication and Security
• Configuring TLS security
• Using access control instructions (ACI's)
• ACI's and the Red Hat Console
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
9. Directory Referrals and Replication
• Referrals and replication
• Single master configuration
• Multiple master configuration
• Planning for directory server availability
10. Cross-Platform Centralized Identity Management
• Synchronizing Red Hat Directory Server with Active Directory
• Managing users with Winbind and LDAP
• Mapping attributes between Linux and Windows
11. Red Hat Enterprise IPA
• Understanding IPA
• IPA requirements
• Configuring IPA server
• Configuring IPA clients