:: Centralised Authentication :: An overview of LDAP & Radius deployments using open source components.

www.jethrocarr.com [email protected]

:: what is centralised authentication? :: ●

Centralised location for management of user and group information.

Typically supports multiple operating systems & applications – usually based around a standard. ●

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One place to add, change or revoke user credentials.

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Ability to define what permissions particular users have.

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Examples: LDAP, Kerberos and Active Directory.

:: everyone loves diagrams ::

:: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol :: “is an application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network” ~ Wikipedia

LDAP is commonly considered to be a user storage database – LDAP is no more a “user storage database” than is MySQL, both are tools which provide this functionality, along with many other possibilities.

:: NOT a relational database ::

:: Tree Based Structure :: dc=example,dc=com

ou=People

uid=jethro

uid=lisa

ou=Group

cn=admins

cn=developers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.500

:: LDAP Records ::

:: Scalibility ::

1 user

18,000+ users

:: Popular ::

Linux, Windows, Solaris, Applications, VoIP Phones, Routers, PHP, Perl, Python, C#/.NET, and more

:: Open Source :: OpenLDAP – popular, reliable, ships with almost every Linux distribution. http://www.openldap.org/ ●

389 Directory Server – Red Hat / Fedora's LDAP server http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Main_Page

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(Also known as “Red Hat Directory Server”, “Fedora Directory Server” and once upon a time, “Netscape Directory Server”). FreeRadius – most widly deployed RADIUS server in the world. http://freeradius.org/

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:: If LDAP is so awesome, why RADIUS? ::

:: If LDAP is so awesome, why RADIUS? ::

:: And more... ::

:: But isn't user management.... a bit ugly? ::

:: LDAPAuthManager :: http://www.amberdms.com/ldapauthmanager

:: Example Auth Build ::

:: DEMO TIME ::

Centralised Authentication :: An overview of LDAP ... - Jethro Carr

Scalibility :: 1 user. 18,000+ users. Page 10. :: Popular :: Linux, Windows, Solaris,. Applications, VoIP. Phones, Routers, PHP,. Perl, Python, C#/.NET, and more ...
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