I have searched amazon.com and google.com. There are only a few books about openldap.
I also review openldap official docs step by step. but I can not master openldap.
if you have no books. What websites do you recommend to learn openldap?
Hi
if you have no books. What websites do you recommend to learn openldap?
For some easy to follow tutorials you could go to golinuxcloud.com. Unfortunately there is no search on that page, so best to search google like with those searchterms: openldap site:golinuxcloud.com This will bring up several step-by-step tutorials.
It might help to have a graphical utility to access your openldap installation. If you want a locally installed tool I suggest Apache Directory Studio: https://directory.apache.org/studio/ Or if you prefer something webbased you might want to look into phpLDAPadmin https://github.com/leenooks/phpLDAPadmin
Symas has a good KnowledgeBase with short blocks of information grouped by topic mostly around installtion of OpenLDAP. Most of it is relevant for all versions of OpenLDAP, not just the one offered by Symas https://kb.symas.com/en_US/installation
To install OpenLDAP yourself (depending on your OS) you might prefer pre-compiled RPM or DEB packages which you can find from the OpenLDAP Toolbox project which offers other ressources (Nagios Checks, SelfServicePassword WebUI, etc.) as well: https://ltb-project.org/
If you prefer containers then this might be a good starting point: https://hub.docker.com/r/bitnami/openldap
The commandline tool ldapsearch is quite useful but especially the filters are a bit tricky to learn at first. A good explanation can be found here: https://tylersguides.com/guides/ldap-search-filters/
If you want to administer your OpenLDAP installation on the commandline then there are a couple of different options. But this gives a quick overview of some of the more often used ones: https://serverfault.com/questions/577356/ldap-backup-with-slapcat-vs-ldapsea...
To dive deeper into the commandline tools you probably won't get around reading some man pages. But with the links above you should be occupied for a while.
Best, Cyril
Hello,
Aside proposed links, I would highly suggest these when you'll want to dive deeper in the configuration:
* man pages are the real source of truth concerning all OpenLDAP options. One can use oneline man pages * OpenLDAP Admin guide: https://openldap.org/doc/ has good articles on each piece of OpenLDAP, though it is sometimes incomplete or inaccurate. It's often a good starting point * Zytrax LDAP Book: https://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ has a ton of reach comments about many options, especially for ACL
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if you have no books. What websites do you recommend to learn openldap? For some easy to follow tutorials you could go to golinuxcloud.com. Unfortunately there is no search on that page, so best to search google like with those searchterms: openldap site:golinuxcloud.com This will bring up several step-by-step tutorials.
It might help to have a graphical utility to access your openldap installation. If you want a locally installed tool I suggest Apache Directory Studio: https://directory.apache.org/studio/ Or if you prefer something webbased you might want to look into phpLDAPadmin https://github.com/leenooks/phpLDAPadmin
Symas has a good KnowledgeBase with short blocks of information grouped by topic mostly around installtion of OpenLDAP. Most of it is relevant for all versions of OpenLDAP, not just the one offered by Symas https://kb.symas.com/en_US/installation
To install OpenLDAP yourself (depending on your OS) you might prefer pre-compiled RPM or DEB packages which you can find from the OpenLDAP Toolbox project which offers other ressources (Nagios Checks, SelfServicePassword WebUI, etc.) as well: https://ltb-project.org/
If you prefer containers then this might be a good starting point: https://hub.docker.com/r/bitnami/openldap
The commandline tool ldapsearch is quite useful but especially the filters are a bit tricky to learn at first. A good explanation can be found here: https://tylersguides.com/guides/ldap-search-filters/
If you want to administer your OpenLDAP installation on the commandline then there are a couple of different options. But this gives a quick overview of some of the more often used ones: https://serverfault.com/questions/577356/ldap-backup-with-slapcat-vs-ldapsea...
To dive deeper into the commandline tools you probably won't get around reading some man pages. But with the links above you should be occupied for a while.
Best, Cyril
From: BECOT Jérôme jbecot@itsgroup.com Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 12:37 PM To: cyril@stoll.info; openldap-technical@openldap.org Subject: [EXT] RE: Can give me some books about openldap?
* Zytrax LDAP Book: https://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ has a ton of reach comments about many options, especially for ACL [Windl, Ulrich] I talks about “sysncrepl” multiple times 😉
Hello, everyone.
1. @cyril, Your link is not a website about the “step by step” tutorial. Can you recommend some websites like this? 2. @becot, your book https://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/changelog.html. It was 7 years ago. Do you think it is still ok now? 3. Today I learned about a software called FreeIPA https://www.freeipa.org/. but FreeIPA uses 389 Directory Server https://www.port389.org/ that is a very different project compared to OpenLDAP. So do you know what software that uses OpenLDAP can replace FreeIPA?
On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM Windl, Ulrich u.windl@ukr.de wrote:
*From:* BECOT Jérôme jbecot@itsgroup.com *Sent:* Wednesday, March 26, 2025 12:37 PM *To:* cyril@stoll.info; openldap-technical@openldap.org *Subject:* [EXT] RE: Can give me some books about openldap?
- Zytrax LDAP Book: https://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ has a ton of
reach comments about many options, especially for ACL
*[Windl, Ulrich] *
I talks about “sysncrepl” multiple times 😉
Yes it's quite old but it's still relevant. Some things may have changed a bit, like how ppolicies are supported or some overlays, but the core config has not. ACL are the same and imho it's the most accurate pages I came accross.
FreeIPA is Red Hat unified Central Authentication server. It is packaged with different softwares over 389DS (red hat ..) and does way more than just providing LDAP. Clients are enrolled and it connects with LDAP and Kerberos, FreeIPA can manage DNS and certificates
As far as I know there is no opensource alternative packaged like this. If you're looking for a solution to manage users and permissions, it may be the way to go as you don't manage Ldap underneath, which is OK if you don't know it.
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Hello, everyone.
1. @cyril, Your link is not a website about the “step by step” tutorial. Can you recommend some websites like this? 2. @becot, your bookhttps://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/changelog.html. It was 7 years ago. Do you think it is still ok now? 3. Today I learned about a software called FreeIPAhttps://www.freeipa.org/. but FreeIPA uses 389 Directory Serverhttps://www.port389.org/ that is a very different project compared to OpenLDAP. So do you know what software that uses OpenLDAP can replace FreeIPA?
On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM Windl, Ulrich <u.windl@ukr.demailto:u.windl@ukr.de> wrote:
From: BECOT Jérôme <jbecot@itsgroup.commailto:jbecot@itsgroup.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 12:37 PM To: cyril@stoll.infomailto:cyril@stoll.info; openldap-technical@openldap.orgmailto:openldap-technical@openldap.org Subject: [EXT] RE: Can give me some books about openldap?
* Zytrax LDAP Book: https://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ has a ton of reach comments about many options, especially for ACL
[Windl, Ulrich]
I talks about “sysncrepl” multiple times 😉
Hi
Not sure if I understand you correctly. The site golinuxcloud.org has tons of tutorials. But it is not easy to find them on the page itself. That is why I told you to use google to search for those tutorials. If you type "site:golinuxcloud.com" and the searchterm "openldap" together into google, then google will only search for the term "openldap" on that particular site. So go to google.com and in the searchbar type exactly the following:
openldap site:golinuxcloud.com
and then press Enter. Then you will see several openldap related articles/tutorials from that site.
That is all that I can offer. Cyril
anlex N an0291170@gmail.com hat am 28.03.2025 02:58 CET geschrieben:
Hello, everyone.
@cyril, Your link is not a website about the “step by step” tutorial. Can you recommend some websites like this?
@becot, your book https://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/changelog.html. It was 7 years ago. Do you think it is still ok now?
Today I learned about a software called FreeIPA https://www.freeipa.org/. but FreeIPA uses 389 Directory Server https://www.port389.org/ that is a very different project compared to OpenLDAP. So do you know what software that uses OpenLDAP can replace FreeIPA?
On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM Windl, Ulrich <u.windl@ukr.de mailto:u.windl@ukr.de> wrote:
From: BECOT Jérôme <jbecot@itsgroup.com mailto:jbecot@itsgroup.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 12:37 PM To: cyril@stoll.info mailto:cyril@stoll.info; openldap-technical@openldap.org mailto:openldap-technical@openldap.org Subject: [EXT] RE: Can give me some books about openldap?
- Zytrax LDAP Book: https://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ has a ton of reach comments about many options, especially for ACL
[Windl, Ulrich]
I talks about “sysncrepl” multiple times 😉
Have you tried to use OpenLDAP to authenticate yourself so that you can access azure, google cloud, amazon aws services? OpenLDAP as an authenticate center or say `cross platform access`.
On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM cyril@stoll.info wrote:
Hi
Not sure if I understand you correctly. The site golinuxcloud.org has tons of tutorials. But it is not easy to find them on the page itself. That is why I told you to use google to search for those tutorials. If you type "site:golinuxcloud.com" and the searchterm "openldap" together into google, then google will only search for the term "openldap" on that particular site. So go to google.com and in the searchbar type exactly the following:
openldap site:golinuxcloud.com
and then press Enter. Then you will see several openldap related articles/tutorials from that site.
That is all that I can offer. Cyril
anlex N an0291170@gmail.com hat am 28.03.2025 02:58 CET geschrieben:
Hello, everyone.
- @cyril, Your link is not a website about the “step by step”
tutorial. Can you recommend some websites like this? 2. @becot, your book https://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/changelog.html. It was 7 years ago. Do you think it is still ok now? 3. Today I learned about a software called FreeIPA https://www.freeipa.org/. but FreeIPA uses 389 Directory Server https://www.port389.org/ that is a very different project compared to OpenLDAP. So do you know what software that uses OpenLDAP can replace FreeIPA?
On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM Windl, Ulrich u.windl@ukr.de wrote:
*From:* BECOT Jérôme jbecot@itsgroup.com *Sent:* Wednesday, March 26, 2025 12:37 PM *To:* cyril@stoll.info; openldap-technical@openldap.org *Subject:* [EXT] RE: Can give me some books about openldap?
- Zytrax LDAP Book: https://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ has a ton of
reach comments about many options, especially for ACL
*[Windl, Ulrich] *
I talks about “sysncrepl” multiple times 😉
Does [PingDirectory]( https://www.pingidentity.com/en/platform/capabilities/directory/pingdirector...) use OpenLDAP? Or are these two different project?
On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM anlex N an0291170@gmail.com wrote:
Have you tried to use OpenLDAP to authenticate yourself so that you can access azure, google cloud, amazon aws services? OpenLDAP as an authenticate center or say `cross platform access`.
On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM cyril@stoll.info wrote:
Hi
Not sure if I understand you correctly. The site golinuxcloud.org has tons of tutorials. But it is not easy to find them on the page itself. That is why I told you to use google to search for those tutorials. If you type "site:golinuxcloud.com" and the searchterm "openldap" together into google, then google will only search for the term "openldap" on that particular site. So go to google.com and in the searchbar type exactly the following:
openldap site:golinuxcloud.com
and then press Enter. Then you will see several openldap related articles/tutorials from that site.
That is all that I can offer. Cyril
anlex N an0291170@gmail.com hat am 28.03.2025 02:58 CET geschrieben:
Hello, everyone.
- @cyril, Your link is not a website about the “step by step”
tutorial. Can you recommend some websites like this? 2. @becot, your book https://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/changelog.html. It was 7 years ago. Do you think it is still ok now? 3. Today I learned about a software called FreeIPA https://www.freeipa.org/. but FreeIPA uses 389 Directory Server https://www.port389.org/ that is a very different project compared to OpenLDAP. So do you know what software that uses OpenLDAP can replace FreeIPA?
On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM Windl, Ulrich u.windl@ukr.de wrote:
*From:* BECOT Jérôme jbecot@itsgroup.com *Sent:* Wednesday, March 26, 2025 12:37 PM *To:* cyril@stoll.info; openldap-technical@openldap.org *Subject:* [EXT] RE: Can give me some books about openldap?
- Zytrax LDAP Book: https://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ has a ton of
reach comments about many options, especially for ACL
*[Windl, Ulrich] *
I talks about “sysncrepl” multiple times 😉
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