New here in LDAP learning. Sorry if it is duplicate question. It will be great if you can provide some links on this regards.
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a software protocol for enabling anyone to locate organizations, individuals, and other resources such as files and devices in a network, whether on the public Internet or on a corporate intranet. For example I am using this protocol for connection between my active directory users and qradar siem program.
There are many programs which are using LDAP configuration. Therefore the configuration may change due to program. However for understanding its purporse you can follow these links.
https://www.ldap.com/basic-ldap-concepts
What is LDAP used for?
https://www.techopedia.com/definition/2439/lightweight-directory-access-protocol-ldap
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So this is a bit of an esoteric question and I've not found any good links after searching for an hour or so.
What are the communication differences between the Powershell AD Module and the Active Directory MMC tool?
I specifically wanted to know how the tool differs from the Powershell Module when talking to Active Directory?
I assume that Powershell still uses WinRM to speak to the AD system, and that the ADUC is using the direct port access on the various ports (389/etc). However I don't find a lot of good info on this readily available.
I am trying to figure out how to query a domain to find out where the default domain controllers OU via LDAP. I am consultant and do know that 99.9% of domains I will come across with have their the standard OU=domain controllers,DC=domain,DC=root. However, I'm trying to account for that .1% of admins that for what ever reason have moved it to like OU=why,OU=canteven,DC=domain,DC=root. I know that PowerShell can do this with Get-ADDomain but the tool my development team uses is Python. POSH will print a line like:
DomainControllersContainer : OU=Domain Controllers,DC=test,DC=lab
But again, the tools my developers are working on uses python so I'm stuck with traditional LDAP. Does anyone know where this is stored in AD? I just need the attribute path so I know where to point my Dev team. Thanks!
You might be better to utilize DNS for location of Domain Controllers.
You might be able to use some of this information:
https://ldapwiki.com/wiki/How%20Domain%20Controllers%20Are%20Located%20in%20Windows
As far as I know, there is no "default". The concept of "sites" is done from a ip segment condition.
You can also locate a lot of information about domain controllers via LDAP Queries.
I've been tasked with implementing a Single Sign-On solution in an environment which uses Kerberos with an Active Directory server for the actual storing of the users and their groups. I understand that Kerberos does not support privileges/groups and that this is the reason to be forced to use a backing server like, for example, LDAP, or Active Directory. This is all fine and clear, but what I don't quite understand is why you would still be using Kerberos, when you could simply be connecting to LDAP or Active Directory directly instead and dropping the whole overhead of yet another server.
What am I missing here...? Please advise! Many thanks in advance!
Their is no overhead for another server. Active Directory combines all necessary services in one product.
Kerberos has tremendous benenfits:
One login for all systems
Transparent subsequent login
Ciphered ticket exchange, even full transport encryption is possible
Delegation of credential is supported out of the box
Implemented and well documented in Unix and Windows for almost two decades
I use Kerberos via AD for years in Java and C on Unix and Windows with great success. I wouldn't use anything else in a corporate environment.
I want to integrate mutiple LDAP (AD, OpenDS, OpenLDAP etc) user data into one LDAP (OpenDS). Is there any tool which does it? Also, I need my LDAP to be in sync with all other LDAPs so that any change in user info will be reflected in my LDAP as well.
If there isn't a tool for it, can it be achieved through coding? I am new to LDAP and any guidance will be helpful.
Thanks in advance.
This is what most Metadirectory tools are designed to do.
There are two approaches.
1) Sync all data and changes from all the various sources into a central LDAP repository. The Metadirectory itself.
2) Federate or have some kind of proxy that allows a consolidated view. Often these are called Virtual Directories.
You might want to take a look at OpenIDM open source project at openidm.forgerock.org, which can be used to synchronize entries between different services, including LDAP servers.
OpenIDM has in production deployments with 2 ways synchronization between AD and OpenDJ (OpenDJ is OpenDS continuation as an open source project. Upgrade from OpenDS is straightforward).
Kind regards,
Ludo
I've written a web applciation for a client in which authentication/authorization is done by spring security based on the 'internal' database. Now, the client has asked to switch to using their Active Directory instead. I'm a green as can be where LDAP is concerned but looking at the sample code and such it doesn't seem too difficult.
I do have a more general question concerning LDAP. As I gather this is a network protocol for which several implementations are available (among those Active Directory). Now, installing AD on my PC doesn't realy appeal to me (if it is even possible?). However, if all implementations follow the LDAP protocol I would assume that I could simply install Apache Directory on my PC, write the 'code' and then deploy this on a environment with Active Directory and (apart from some config changes) this should work.
Can any one confirm/deny this?
Thanks,
Stijn
It would be lovely if the LDAP standard was implemented the same on all major platforms, but while true in general, there are sufficient differences that you should plan on working against the target LDAP server instance in development.
For Active Directory you could run a Domain Controller in a VM on your workstation (since you cannot install AD on a workstation). You could install ADAM which is a standalone'ish AD like service. But even that is not a 100% match.
Usually the core issues are related to authentication but the generic functionality for querying with filters and so on are the same cross backend server.