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Red Hat Enterprise Directory Services and Authentication Training at AmeriTeach

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Red Hat Enterprise Directory Services and Authentication

Course RH423: Four days; Instructor-Led

RH423 Red Hat Enterprise Directory Services and Authentication is an intensive course that provides four days of instruction and labs on cross-platform integration of directory services to provide authentication or information service across the enterprise using the Red Hat Directory Server.

Audience:

RH423 is aimed at senior Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators and other IT professionals who need to provide enterprise-wide authentication or information services or who desire training in the management of LDAP-based directory services and customization of Linux authentication using the Red Hat Directory Server.

Prerequisites:

RH423 requires RHCE-level skills. The RHCE certificate on Red Hat Linux 7.1 or later is recommended but not required. Prerequisite skills can be shown by passing the RHCE Exam in either RH302 or RH300 , or by taking RH253 or by possessing comparable skills and knowledge.

Note: Persons should not enroll in RH423 without meeting the above prerequisites. All prospective course participants who do not possess RHCE certification are strongly advised to contact Red Hat Global Learning Services for a skills assessment when they enroll.

What you will learn:

1. Introduction to Directory Services

· What is a directory?

· LDAP: models, schema, and attributes

· Object classes

· LDIF

2. The LDAP Naming Model

· Directory information trees and Distingued Names

· X.500 and "Internet" naming suffixes

· Planning the directory hierarchy

3. Red Hat Directory Server: Basic Configuration

· Installation and setup of Red Hat Directory Server

· Using the Red Hat Console

· Using logging to monitor Red Hat Directory Server activity

· Backing up and restoring the directory

· Basic performance tuning with indexes

4. Red Hat Directory Server: Authentication and Security

· Configuring TLS security

· Using access control instructions (ACI's)

· ACI's and the Red Hat Console

5. Searching and Modifying the LDAP Directory

· Using command line utilities to search the directory

· Search filter syntax

· Updating the directory

· Using graphical LDAP client utilities

6. Linux User Authentication with NSS and PAM

· Understanding authentication and authorization

· Name service switch (NSS)

· Advanced pluggable authentication modules (PAM) configuration

7. Centralized User Authentication with LDAP

· Central account management with LDAP

· Using migration scripts to migrate existing data into an LDAP server

· LDAP user authentication

8. Kerberos and LDAP

· Introduction to Kerberos

· Configuring the Kerberos key distribution center (KDC) and clients

· Configuring LDAP to support Kerberos

· Access control with Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)

9. Directory Referrals and Replication

· Referrals and replication

· Single master configuration

· Multiple master configuration

· Planning for directory server availability

10. Authenticating Windows Clients

· Windows networking overview

· Configuring a Samba primary domain controller (PDC) using LDAP

11. Windows Domain Authentication and Linux Clients

· Active Directory servers

· Linux as a client

· Active Directory and NSS

· OpenLDAP

· Winbind

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