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Introduction

In many networks environment, Linux servers are integrated in the Active Directory network. For most Linux distributions, an LDAP implementation is available: OpenLDAP. OpenLDAP is an Open Source implementation of LDAP. On Linux, OpenLDAP is used to setup a directory service for different applications and implementations of for instance

• Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
• Linux Name Service Switch (NSS)
• Samba
• FTP/HTTP
• FreeRadius

Such applications can be LDAP enabled using OpenLDAP. The UMRA LDAP actions can be used to manage the OpenLDAP directory service in order to create, manage, delete, edit and search directory service items.

Depending on the package and compilation, OpenLDAP supports SSL. In this case, the LDAP communication between the LDAP Client (UMRA) and the LDAP Server (Linux OpenLDAP) is secure using SSL.

In this document, the following Linux and OpenLDAP environment is used:

• Debiun GNU/Linux 3.1 (kernel 2.4.27-2-386)
• OpenLDAP, version 2.2.23-8

This section on Linux OpenLDAP includes the following sections:

• Setting up a secure Linux OpenLDAP environment
• Example project to create directory service items