I started learning Openldap 2.4, but I faced some concepts that I couldn’t understand well based on official administration guide. So I’m addressing those questions to the community in hope to find some good explanations.
The first question is what the difference between backbends and databases in Openldap? Also in documentation I found something very confusing, for example in the backbends section, I tried to create an ldap backend with those instructions.
database ldap
suffix "dc=suretecsystems,dc=com"
rootdn "cn=slapd-ldap"
uri ldap://localhost/ ldap://remotehost ldap://remotehost2
After altering my configuration directory, I found olcDatabase={1}ldap.ldif file created in cn=config folder, and no back-ldap module has been created.
Another question, is about multiple databases definition in Openldap server, if I created two databases (for example an hdb and mdb database). How a query from Ldap client is handled by the server? The data are fetched from the both databases defined with an specific order, or there is a way to chooses which database we want to interact with?
And finally, why in official administration guide we still find slapd.conf configuration style while it is deprecated? Is there any updated guide?
Thanks!!
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I don't know much about this topic, is the first time when I need to do this.
I have a platform (an e-commerce website) with the LDAP extension added, I must test to see if LDAP is working.
I understood that I need an active directory…but I really don’t understand or I don’t know how to search to get something that can be useful.
I need some test users to see if LDAP protocol is working...
Do you have any tutorials or documentation about this? Like, for dummies :)
Thank you
There's a public test LDAP server detailed at https://www.forumsys.com/tutorials/integration-how-to/ldap/online-ldap-test-server/
That's not Active Directory, so no good if you have a specific requirement to test Active Directory LDAP. I doubt you'd find a public Active Directory for testing -- you may be able to use a free trial of Windows Server 2019 (or free trial in MS's Azure cloud) to set up a Windows server on which you create a AD test domain.
I am trying to configure Apache Brooklyn to use the LDAPSecurityProvider against a Windows Active Directory.
I am testing the connection with Apache Directory Studio and it works with the provided credentials.
Screenshot of Apache Directory Studio and the LDAP tree
But when I Configure Apache Brooklyn to use LDAP against the AD it does not work and creates no error logs.
My brooklyn property file is here:
brooklyn.webconsole.security.provider=org.apache.brooklyn.rest.security.provider.LdapSecurityProvider
brooklyn.webconsole.security.ldap.url=ldap://10.0.20.10:389/????X-BIND-USER=uid=StackAdmin%2cou=users,X-BIND-PASSWORD=Password123,X-COUNT-LIMIT=1000
brooklyn.webconsole.security.ldap.realm=example.com
The LDAP support is documented at http://brooklyn.apache.org/v/latest/ops/brooklyn_properties.html#ldap - your example configuration looks good (very similar to that).
However, the docs say it will then construct something like:
LDAP://cn=John Smith,ou=Users,dc=example,dc=com
(With the "ou" value being configurable).
Looking at your screenshot, it seems you'd need something like that below (though it isn't expanded to see a full user example):
LDAP://cn=John Smith,cn=Users,dc=example,dc=com
Unfortunately that isn't currently supported in Brooklyn.
The workaround would be store your users under "ou" intead.
The LDAP integration code is pretty simple (and low on logging):
https://github.com/apache/incubator-brooklyn/blob/master/brooklyn-server/rest/rest-server/src/main/java/org/apache/brooklyn/rest/security/provider/LdapSecurityProvider.java
It would be reasonably easy to update the Java to support your use-case.
Do you want to either have a go at creating a pull request for that (https://github.com/apache/incubator-brooklyn/), or opening a jira issue at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BROOKLYN to describe the requirements and someone can take a look?
I had the same problem and solved it by creating my own LdapSecurityProvider for ActiveDirectory. Create a new Class which extends the org.apache.brooklyn.rest.security.provider.LdapSecurityProvider and override the getUserDN Method.
Brooklyn uses the com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory so you can find a detailed documentation under http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jndi/jndi-ldap.html
I am studying LDAP server(ADLDS)
I figured out that extended operation is implemented in ldap server.
For example, oid(1.3.6.1.4.1.4203.1.11.3) stands for whoami command.
If I give 1.3.6.1.4.1.4203.1.11.3 to ldap server, server would respond who the user is.
In this situation, I hope to make my own command with new oid.
How can I make this possible?
Thank you.
Some LDAP directory servers will allow you to extend them and define your own extended operation. This needs code and some expertise in the internals of the server.
I would strongly recommend that you consider open source directory servers, if you want to pursue that route, as getting full access to the code will make things easier.
We have multiple projects in svn repo.And for each project there are many users.As number of users is large so its troublesome to manage their commit rights using "Auth file".
I have read somewhere that we can delegate user's rights to their managers by creating a text file.But i am not sure how to achieve this and perhaps hOOKS need to be configured for this .As i am new to SVN so need your expert advice.Please guide me how to achieve this and if you have hook already confgiured p,kindly provide.
How to setup access control in SVN?
I have seen this link and answer by VonC is great and perfect for me.But i dont know how to start .. can anybody help me out here as i am not pro in svn and unix .
Thanks in advance
Preface
Using single repository for multiple projects is Bad Idea (tm): one repo - one project
Forget immediately about old as mammoth's shit SVN 1.5 - use at least 1.6 on client and server (1.8 may be best choice)
Face
Simplified user-management for SVN-users can be reached using LDAP-based authentication instead of ordinary file (in case of "repository per project" <location> from answer will be location of each repo with SVNPath, in case of old structure <location> must be linked to every root of project) and having different groups for different repositories in Require ldap-group directive - read also Apache 2.2 docs in Apache Module mod_authnz_ldap part. From management POV, LDAP-auth and permissions means: each developer must be in LDAP-tree, included in one or more related to repositories groups
In case of additional requirement for Path-Based Authorization within repositories and using groups inside authz-file, you may find useful LDAP Groups to Subversion Authz Groups Bridge, which allow you to regenerate authz-groups from LDAP-data
As result, most (if not all) SVN-related ACLs can be managed in LDAP-side only
Hey everyone, I made sure there wasn't a similar discussion before posting but forgive me if I am mistaken.
Question: Can I use Indefero - http://www.indefero.net/ - with SVN on a linux server if I do not have any sort of web interface installed for Apache? Instead, I want to use Indefero with SVN by just using the svnserve server. From my readings, I'm not finding this exact situation mentioned anywhere, so I'm doubting if this configuration is possible.
Forgive my ignorance; Thanks. :)
EDIT: the svnserve server and Indefero installation will be running on the same machine.
Gnucom, at the moment it is not yet in the master branch, but you already have a patch to fully support svnserve. If you do not want to apply the patch, you can also use Indefero without it controlling the access rights to the repositories. Indefero can read the repositories and you control the access to the source yourself. You can get a lot of your questions answered by the community if you need.