Contents

• Contents
• Introduction
  • Why Directories?
  • Layout of this Thesis
• Directory Services Overview
  • Information Model
  • Naming Model
  • Functional Model
    • Interrogation
    • Modification
    • Authentication and Control
  • Distribution Model
• A History of Directory Standards
  • Early Electronic Directories
  • Special Purpose Directories
  • General Purpose Directories - X.500
  • Lightweight X.500 - LDAP
  • LDAPv3
  • Text-based Standards
• Access Control and Security Layers
  • Authentication
    • Cryptographic background
    • Authentication Methods
  • Authorization
  • Security Layers
  • SASL
  • Authentication Methods for LDAP
• Developing LDAP-enabled Software
  • C
  • Perl
  • Java
  • PHP
  • Python
  • ADSI
• Directory Software for Linux
  • Directory Servers
    • OpenLDAP
    • Netscape
    • IBM
    • MessagingDirect
    • Novell
  • Administration Tools
    • Command line tools
    • lbe
    • gq
  • Directory-enabled Applications
    • Name Service Switch
    • Pluggable Authentication Modules
    • Sendmail
    • Apache
• Novell Directory Services
  • Directory Server
  • Administration Tools
  • Directory-enabled Applications
• Microsoft Active Directory
  • Directory Server
  • Administration Tools
  • Directory-enabled Applications
• LDAP-enabled user management for Linux
  • Requirements
  • Implementation
    • Schema
    • Directory Service
    • Authentication Considerations
    • Single Sign-On
• Conformance and Interoperability
  • Interoperability Tests
  • Supported features in DSAs
  • Support for standard schema items
  • SASL GSSAPI
• Performance
  • Test Environment
  • Tests
    • Loading - Initial directory population
    • Messaging
    • Address Look-up
    • Authentication
  • Results
  • Comparison with real-life requirements
• BibTeX records in LDAP
  • Schema and DIT
  • Converting bibliographies to LDIF
  • Retrieving BibTeX records from LDAP
  • A web front-end with Java Servlets
  • Conclusions and future work
• Conclusions and Future Work
• Password Synchronization
  • Changes originating in Linux
  • Changes originating in Windows 2000
• LanManager Hashes in OpenLDAP
• Abbreviations
• Bibliography
• About this document ...