LDAP for Rocket Scientists - Change Log

The changes made with each revision of this document

Version 0.1.9 1st February 2008

General - Progressive addition of ApacheDS material and update to OpenLDAP 2.4+.
Index/Contents - Updated
Chapter 2 - Addition of section summarizing LDAP advantages. Minor corrections.
Chapter 2 - Expansion and Rework of Referral and Replication Section.
Chapter 3 - Attributes - additional text.
Chapter 6 - Renaming of chapter to Configuration Files (covers OpenLDAP's slapd.conf, ldap.conf and ApacheDS's server.xml file).
Chapter 6 - OpenLDAP's LogLevel - additional detail, directory - minor corrections.
Chapter 6 - OpenLDAP's access to <what> - change to attrs (was attr) seems that OpenLDAP is trying to remove attr, change to use of expand modifier with regex.
Chapter 6 - add OpenLDAP's overlay, replica, replogfile, syncrepl, readonly, updatedn, updateref, replicationinterval, referral, moduleload and modulepath directives
Chapter 6 - OpenLDAP - overlay documentation for accesslog, chain, syncprov (replication). Placeholders for pcache (proxy), ppolicy (password policy), rwm (re-write DN).
Chapter 6 - OpenLDAP - conversion to cn=config
Chapter 7 - Renaming of chapter to Replication and Referrals.
Chapter 7 - 7.2 Replication (slurpd and syncrepl).
Chapter 7 - 7.2 Replication syncrepl N-Way Multi-Master.
Chapter 7 - 7.2 Replication syncrepl delta synchronization.
Chapter 7 - 7.3 Referral and Chaining.
Chapter 8 - LDIF deleting attributes and entries - additional detail.
Chapter 8 - DSML Placemarker.
Chapter 9 - LDAP URLs - minor corrections and clarifications. Updated to RFC 4516. Changes to use example.com
Chapter 11 - add slurpd, referrals, referral chaing, syncrepl, delta synchronization
Chapter 14 - LDAP Tools - update ldapsearch to version 2.4+
Chapter 14 - LDAP Tools - update slapadd to version 2.4+
Chapter 14 - LDAP Tools - update slapcat to version 2.4+
Chapter 14 - LDAP Tools - update slapindex to version 2.4+
Chapter 14 - LDAP Tools - addition of ldappasswd and slaptest documentation
Appendix A - OIDs - additional detail.
Appendix A - search filters - minor corrections. Update to RFC 4515 (including extensible matching).
Appendix A - DNs-RDNs - clarification that it is the data content of an attribute that creates the DN/RDN.
Appendix B - Updates to Open Source LDAP servers.
Appendix C - RFC updates.
Appendix D - ASN.1 - better link. Additional Entries.
Appendix E - Added cn=config cn=schema.ldif file.

Version 0.1.8 December 21st 2007

General - Progressive addition of Open Source ApacheDS material.
Chapter 4 - Addition of OpenLDAP and ApacheDS installation.
Chapter 5 - Removal of version: 1 tag and associated comments in LDIF files due to problems with OpenLDAP 2.2+
Chapter 8 - error in newrdn statements - must include the objectclass
Appendix B - Addition of Apache Directory Server and other tools, Update to LDAPBrowser/Editor link
Appendix C - update of RFC list

Version 0.1.7 22nd March 2007

General - progressive change from mydomain.com to example.com.
Chapter 3 - ABSTRACT typo (was ABTRACT)
Chapter 5 - minor typo
Chapter 6 - bdb searchstack prototype incorrect
Appendix A - Root Name Angst - clarification of wording
Appendix A - OID - correction of OpenLDAP OID to 1.3.6.1.4.1.4203 (incorrectly defined as 4303) and minor typos
Appendix D - Addition of Organizational Unit to definitions.

Version 0.1.6 19th January 2006

General - progressive change from mydomain.com to example.com.
Chapter 3 - objectClass is an attribute and can be searched on
Chapter 5 - Steps 1, 2, 3, 4 - slapd.conf added note on index objectClass

Version 0.1.5 January 2006

Contents
General - progressive change from mydomain.com to example.com.
Chapter 5 - Step 1, 2, 3 and 4 - removal of dbnoync, dirtyread, searchstack directives from slad.conf files
Chapter 5 - Step 1, 2, 3 and 4 - change to index sn eq,sub (removes superfluous subinitial, subany and subfinal) directive from slad.conf files
Chapter 5 - Step 4 - addition of comments to objectclass and attributes
Chapter 5 - Step 4 - change location of slapd.sh start/stop script for [bsd]
Chapter 5 - Step 5 - single-sign-on SSO - incomplete placeholder
Chapter 11 - Minor corrections to multi-dit explantion
Appendix A - RDN-DN clarification of when a DN must be unique and when not.

Version 0.1.4 24th October 2004

Contents
Chapter 1 and 2 - many grammatical corrections and clarifications - thanks to Seemant Kulleen
Chapter 6 - minor corrections to rootDSE parameter
Appendix E - addition of userPassword to x-refed list

Version 0.1.3 5th September 2004

Contents
Contents - corrections to Chapter 5 numbering
Chapter 5 - corrections to section numbering
Appendix E - LDAP Objects and Schemas - cross referenced samba, courier and qmail schema.

Version 0.1.2 10th August 2004

Contents
Chapter 5 - Major error in LDIF for step 1 rejected by LDAP 2.2
Appendix B - LDAP Resources - added some web site references.
Appendix C - LDAP RFCs - added RFC 3829, 3866 and 3045.
Appendix E - LDAP Objects and Schemas - added samba3 and courier (email) schemas.

Version 0.1.1 24 July 2004

Contents
Chapter 5 - Samples - Create & Add ObjectClasses, Attributes and Schemas
Chapter 11 - HOWTO Configure Groups of Users
Chapter 11 - HOWTO Configure Multiple DITs
Appendix B - LDAP Resources - bad URL for LDAP Browser/editor - added some comments about tools.

Version 0.1.0 21 June 2004

Contents
Chapter 1 - Boiler Plate and Terminology
Chapter 2 - LDAP Overview
Chapter 3 - LDAP Schemas, objectClasses, Attributes
Chapter 5 - Samples - basic directory
Chapter 5 - Samples - security enhancement
Chapter 5 - Samples - Expanding Hierarchy
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - access
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - argsfile
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - attributetype
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - concurrency
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - conn_max_pending
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - conn_max_auth
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - defaultsearchbase
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - gentlehup
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - idletimeout
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - include
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - loglevel
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - objectclass
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - pidfile
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - referral
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - schemadn
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - sizelimit
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - sockbuf_max_incoming
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - sockbuf_max_incoming_auth
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - threads
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - timelimit
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - database - bdb
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - rootpw
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - suffix
Chapter 6 - slapd.conf - rootdn
Chapter 8 - LDIF - format
Chapter 9 - LDAP URLs
Appendix A - Notes and Explanations - Root Angst
Appendix A - Notes and Explanations - DN and RDN
Appendix A - Notes and Explanations - Multiple DITs
Appendix A - Notes and Explanations - Search Filters
Appendix A - Notes and Explanations - OIDs
Appendix A - Notes and Explanations - LDIF defining the object hierarchy
Appendix A - Notes and Explanations - LDAP Data types
Appendix B - LDAP Resources
Appendix C - RFC's and X.500 Standards
Appendix D - Glossary
Appendix E - Common Object Classes and Attributes

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