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Operating Systems AIX Poll of sorts - on LDAP Post 302843680 by MichaelFelt on Wednesday 14th of August 2013 11:28:58 AM

08-14-2013

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Thanks for your replies. Finally not in a plane, visiting customers, etc..

IDS seems daunting - but it does have the schema for supporting all AIX user attributes. Most customers I see usig LDAP and not IDS only support/use the RFC2307 (basically /etc/passwd and /etc/group entries) and rely on the files in /etc/security - in particular /etc/security/user - but never think to update them.

Also, no RBAC/TE support, by default, in non-IDS.

I doubt I will experiment with AD (what I hear is if you add the AIX schema AD is out of support) as customers do not like to "go out of support". So, when they use AD as server for AIX they use the AD equivalent of RFC2307.

I expect openLDAP to support RFC2307 - out of the box. I have been reading their documentation and am hopeful that the AIX schema can be added in without too much difficulty - since that know have a tool for configuring slapd - keeping the config info in private ldif files, similiar to how IDS does it's configuration.

Just remember, in discussions, IDS does not really need to be administered/updated in the LDAP internals if it is only being used for AIX - IDS/ITDS is already configured for AIX support. AND - when used for AIX only - there is no additional charge. FYI...

@Lerphil - are you using openLDAP with rfc2307AIX schema, or rfc2307 only?

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afp_ldap.conf

AFP_LDAP.CONF(5)						   Netatalk 2.2 						  AFP_LDAP.CONF(5)

NAME

       afp_ldap.conf - Configuration file used by afpd(8) to configure a LDAP connection to an LDAP server. That is needed for ACL support in
       order to be able to query LDAP for UUIDs.

DESCRIPTION

       /etc/netatalk/afp_ldap.conf is the configuration file used by afpd to set up an LDAP connection to an LDAP server.

       Any line not prefixed with # is interpreted.

	   Note
	   You can use afpldaptest(1) to syntactically check your config
       The required parameters and their meanings are:

PARAMETER

       ldap_server
	   Name or IP address of your LDAP Server

       ldap_auth_method
	   Authentication method: none | simple | sasl

	   none
	       anonymous LDAP bind

	   simple
	       simple LDAP bind

	   sasl
	       SASL. Not yet supported !

       ldap_auth_dn
	   Distinguished Name of the user for simple bind.

       ldap_auth_pw
	   Distinguished Name of the user for simple bind.

       ldap_userbase
	   DN of the user container in LDAP.

       ldap_userscope
	   Search scope for user search: base | one | sub

       ldap_groupbase
	   DN of the group container in LDAP.

       ldap_groupscope
	   Search scope for user search: base | one | sub

       ldap_uuuid_attr
	   Name of the LDAP attribute with the UUIDs.

	   Note: this is used both for users and groups.

       ldap_name_attr
	   Name of the LDAP attribute with the users short name.

       ldap_group_attr
	   Name of the LDAP attribute with the groups short name.

EXAMPLES

       Example. afp_ldap.conf setup with simple bind

	   ldap_server	    = localhost
	   ldap_auth_method = simple
	   ldap_auth_dn     = cn=admin,dc=domain,dc=org
	   ldap_auth_pw     = notthisone
	   ldap_userbase    = ou=users,dc=domain,dc=org
	   ldap_userscope   = one
	   ldap_groupbase   = ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=org
	   ldap_groupscope  = one
	   ldap_uuid_attr   = some_attribute
	   ldap_name_attr   = cn
	   ldap_group_attr  = cn

SEE ALSO

       afpd(8), AppleVolumes.default(5), afpldaptest(1)

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