Rootmanual:ldap

Useful documentation

https://wiki.debian.org/LDAP/OpenLDAPSetup

http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin22/index.html

http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ch6/slapd-config.html

Bootstrap slapd

First install debian, configure the network and run puppet. Please see ldap-server in the lysator puppet git repo.

Now, slapd needs to be reconfigured (mainly to set ldap admin password). Run this:

dpkg-reconfigure -plow slapd

Example answers, note the password <ldap-admin>.

Omit OpenLDAP server configuration? no
DNS nomain name: lysator.liu.se
Organization name: lysator.liu.se
Administrator password: <ldap-admin>
Database backend to use: MDB
Remove database when slapd is purged: no
Move old database: yes
Allow ldapv2 protocol: no

Last, make sure slapd is running:

service slapd start

You should see this in /var/log/syslog:

<date> ldap slapd[XXX]: slapd starting
 ldap slapd[XXX]: Starting OpenLDAP: slapd.

Configure slapd

The OpenLDAP server (slapd) is configured by making changes to a database call ed "cn=config".

We need to make a number of changes before we are ready to initialize the normal database with user data.

We make the changes by writing so called ldif files and applying them to the database with the ldapmodify tool.

ldapmodify -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f diff.ldif

For viewing changes we use the following:

ldapsearch -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -b "cn=config"

Configure more extensive indexing

Configure slapd to use more indexing to improve performance. Put this into indexing.ldif

dn: olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config
changetype: modify
add: olcDbIndex
olcDbIndex: cn pres,sub,eq
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add: olcDbIndex
olcDbIndex: sn pres,sub,eq
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add: olcDbIndex
olcDbIndex: uid pres,sub,eq
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add: olcDbIndex
olcDbIndex: displayName pres,sub,eq
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add: olcDbIndex
olcDbIndex: default sub
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add: olcDbIndex
olcDbIndex: uidNumber eq
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add: olcDbIndex
olcDbIndex: gidNumber eq
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add: olcDbIndex
olcDbIndex: mail,givenName eq,subinitial
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add: olcDbIndex
olcDbIndex: dc eq

Run this:

ldapmodify -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f indexing.ldif

Importing data from NIS

• Import from nis scripts.
• Autofs conversion.
• Character conversion.