Directory Services Resources

Planning Directory Services - a booklet written for European Public Sector Administrators outlining the benefits of Directory Services and the process of planning for their introduction. This was written in 1998, but a surprising amount is still relevant today.
Implementing An Organisational Directory Service A detailed look at Directory Services, their benefits, the legal and organisational framework that they exist in, and the issues involved in planning and deploying them. (Euroview deliverable) Uxbridge, 1999.
Security with LDAP It is possible to use LDAP as a Network Information Service as well as for the more traditional white-pages service. This requires support from operating systems and has new security implications. This paper examines how open-source implementations are rising to the challenge. The paper was first presented at the UKUUG Winter Technical Conference, London, February 2002.
LDAP Schema Design It is possible to make one LDAP directory serve many applications in an organisation. This has the advantage of reducing the effort required to maintain the data, but it does mean that the design must be thought out very carefully before implementation starts.
Schema is the term used to describe the shape of the directory and the rules that govern its content. This paper takes the reader through the schema design process from requirements capture to tree layout to entry design. Some traps and pitfalls along the way are discussed, and an example design is sketched out.
Selected LDAP Attributes This is a document that I give to all my LDAP design clients: it collects together descriptions of most of the commonly-used attributes. For each attribute I give the definition from the standard and a commentary on how it is used in practice.

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