
Explore directory services and LDAP, including history and standards, compare Active Directory with others, and explain how directory servers map names to addresses and organize resources in a tree.
Explore Active Directory as Microsoft's directory service for Windows Server, including domain services, device management, group policies, PKI, federation, and rights management, and compare it to LDAP and directory servers.
Learn how the ldap naming model structures data with an inverted tree, uses distinguished names and relative distinguished names to uniquely identify entries, and supports multivalued rdn and aliases.
Install ldap on centos, update repositories, set the permanent ip and hostname, install ldap packages, enable and verify the service.
Explore LDAP interrogation operations, including search and compare, and learn how search parameters—base, scope, deref aliases, size and time limits, filter, and attributes—determine entry retrieval and attribute values.
Learn the ldap functional model and the four atomic update operations - add, delete, rename, and modify - and the conditions for safe, all-or-nothing directory entry changes under access control.
Learn the LDAP functional module, covering authentication and control operations with bind and unbind, and abandon. Understand bind methods, SASL, Kerberos, TLS, and how identity, credentials, and certificates drive access.
Explore LDAP security best practices, including using an enterprise password manager, protecting passwords with SSL, hashing and salting passwords, input validation, LDAP injection mitigation, ACLs, monitoring, and provisioning and de-provisioning.
Learn how LDAP uses object identifiers (OIDs) to uniquely identify schema elements. Use registered OID prefixes and a base ID per organization, then extend with branches for classes and attributes.
Configure and test an LDAP client by setting host file entries, installing LDAP utilities, and adding a user to enable LDAP login.
Learn how to integrate your web application with LDAP for authentication by using PHP on an Apache server, installing the LDAP module, and performing LDAP connect and bind.
Learn to administer an OpenLDAP server using the online configuration (OLC), explore the configuration tree rooted at config, and query schemas, modules, backends, and operational attributes with ldap search.
Explore ldap replication and the evolution from master/slave to provider and consumer topologies, including Syncrepl, ldap sync, Delta Syncrepl, and both pull and push synchronization.
Become a LDAP Directory Services professional and learn one of employer's most requested skills nowadays!
This comprehensive course is designed so that IT professionals, software developers, security professionals... can learn LDAP Directory Services from scratch to use it in a practical and professional way. Never mind if you have no experience in the topic, you will be equally capable of understanding everything and you will finish the course with total mastery of the subject.
After several years working in IT Environment, we have realized that nowadays mastering LDAP Directory services for designing, implementing, and managing LDAP directories is very necessary in the field of directory services and security. Knowing how to use this tool can give you many job opportunities and many economic benefits, especially in the world of information technology.
The big problem has always been the complexity to perfectly understand LDAP requires, since its absolute mastery is not easy. In this course we try to facilitate this entire learning and improvement process, so that you will be able to carry out and understand your own projects in a short time, thanks to the step-by-step, detailed and hands-on examples of every concept.
With almost 7 exclusive hours of video, this comprehensive course leaves no stone unturned! It includes both practical exercises and theoretical examples to master LDAP. The course will teach you how to design, install, operate, secure, and integrate LDAP directories, a fundamental component of directory services used in IT environments for organizing and managing information in a practical way, from scratch, and step by step.
We will start with the setup of the needed work environment on your computer, regardless of your operating system and computer.
Then, we'll cover a wide variety of topics, including:
● Introduction to LDAP Directory services and course dynamics
● LDAP hierarchical structure to organize data
● Setting up LDAP software on a server
● LDAP Operations: CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete) for managing directory data.
● Implementing authentication and authorization measures to secure LDAP directories.
● Defining the structure and attributes of data stored in the LDAP directory.
● Integrating LDAP with applications and services for user management.
● Software tools used to manage and maintain LDAP directories.
● Deeper exploration of LDAP concepts like replication, LDAPv3, and LDIF.
● Mastery and application of absolutely ALL the functionalities of LDAP
● Practical exercises, complete projects and much more!
In other words, what we want is to contribute our grain of sand and teach you all those things that we would have liked to know in our beginnings and that nobody explained to us. In this way, you can learn to manage directories in more proficient way and make versatile, complete use of LDAP Directory services. And if that were not enough, you will get lifetime access to any class and we will be at your disposal to answer all the questions you want in the shortest possible time.
Learning LDAP has never been easier. What are you waiting to join?