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Special Forums Cybersecurity LDAP authentication question Post 302184636 by melias on Saturday 12th of April 2008 07:47:42 AM
Old 04-12-2008
re: LDAP

If you have multiple servers and require a central sign-on method across all server, then LDAP makes your life a lot easier. You only have one repository of user accounts (and passwords) that all configured servers authenticate against. You can store other details within the LDAP (Microsoft's Active Directory is an example of LDAP and what it can store).

As such, LDAP itself doesn't really provide any more security than a system which is configured for local user accounts - it's main benefit is in reducing the amount of time required to administer multiple servers.

You configure your server to authenticate with LDAP first, but your system still needs to authenticate locally in case network issues cause connection problems with your LDAP server.

Without knowing what O/S your server is running, it a little hard to provide more detail. And LDAP installation and configuration, whilst not too difficult, is still not a quick and simple task. There are plently of tuturials on the web - there's sure to be one for your specific system.

Hope this helps a little..

Last edited by melias; 04-12-2008 at 08:54 AM..
 

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Net::LDAPS(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     Net::LDAPS(3)

NAME
Net::LDAPS - use LDAP over an SSL connection SYNOPSIS
use Net::LDAPS; $ldaps = Net::LDAPS->new('myhost.example.com', port => '10000', verify => 'require', capath => '/usr/local/cacerts/'); # alternate way use Net::LDAP; $ldaps = Net::LDAP->new('ldaps://myhost.example.com:10000', verify => 'require', capath => '/usr/local/cacerts/'); DESCRIPTION
Communicate using the LDAP protocol to a directory server using an encrypted (SSL) network connection. This mechanism is non-standard but widely supported; consider using LDAPv3 with the standard TLS extension if possible (many servers do not support it yet.) See "start_tls" in Net::LDAP. All the normal "Net::LDAP" methods can be used with a "Net::LDAPS" object; see Net::LDAP for details. CONSTRUCTOR
new ( HOST [, OPTIONS ] ) Create a new connection. HOST is the hostname to contact. OPTIONS is a number of key/value pairs. See "new" in Net::LDAP for details. SEE ALSO
Net::LDAP, IO::Socket::SSL BUGS
You cannot have more than one LDAPS connection at any one time, due to restrictions in the underlying Net::SSLeay code. AUTHOR
Chris Ridd <chris.ridd@isode.com> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2000-2004, Chris Ridd and Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.18.2 2013-07-21 Net::LDAPS(3)
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