LDAP Directory Services : Concepts, Setup and Configuration

The best course on LDAP and Directory Services essentials. Learn LDAP setup in a practical way and get hand on !!

Created by: Rajeshwari Senthamil selvam
Engineering college Professor, Freelancer

Created by: Kumar V
Engineer, Analyst

What Will I Learn?

• Understand about directory services and its requirement for storing data
• Setup and configure an LDAP server and UI in both web and desktop
• Know about Directory Information Tree and how it is built
• Get hands-on experience on both phpLDAPadmin and Apache directory Studio
• Work on LDAP command line tools for making changes to LDAP directory structure
• Know about LDIF syntax and use it to make changes to directory structure
• Know about LDAP schemas and learn how customized schemas can be made
• Setup, configure and do authentication to remote LDAP server from a windows and linux client
• Learn to automate LDAP tasks using python
• Setup a replication in LDAP and see a demo failover

Requirements

• Basic knowledge about software industry
• Computer or virtual machine running Windows and Linux (AWS Free-Tier Virtual nachines can be used) )
• Basic programming knowledge on any programming language
• Prior experience with LDAP is NOT required.

Target audience

• Anyone who want to learn LDAP from scratch
• People who want to create an LDAP setup in a short span of time
• People who want to get career opportunities in LDAP
• Automation engineers, who want to understand and automate LDAP tasks