Course Description

Red Hat Enterprise Directory Services and Authentication (RH423) is an intensive course designed to training Senior System Administrators the skills required to manage and deploy the Red Hat Directory Server on and for Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. This course also covers cross-platform integration of directory services in order to provide authentication or information services across the enterprise. In addition, students will gain an understanding of the basic concepts, configuration, and management of LDAP-based services. This course also explores PAM, the Pluggable Authentication Modules system, and how it integrates with services that require authentication.

Course Content

• Understanding basic LDAP concepts
• Configuration and management of Red Hat Directory Server
• Managing user authentication with PAM and glibc NSS
• Using Kerberos and LDAP to centrally manage user authentication
• Using LDAP referrals and replication for distributed, highly available directory server performance
• Exploring options for integration with Microsoft Active Directory authentication

Unit 1:- Introduction to Directory Services

• What is directory services?
• LDAP: models, schema, and attributes
• Object classes LDIF

Unit 2:- The LDAP Naming Model

• Directory information trees and Distingued Names
• X.500 and "Internet" naming suffixes
• Planning the directory hierarchy

Unit 3:- Re Hat Directory Server: Basic Configuration

• Installation and setup of Red Hat Directory Server(RHDS)
• 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

Unit 4:- Searching and Modifying the LDAP Directory

• Using command line utilities to search the directory
• Search filter syntax
• Updating the directory

Unit 5:- Red Hat Directory Server: Authentication and Security

• Configuring TLS security
• Using access control instructions (ACI`s)
• ACI`s and the Red Hat Console

Unit 6:- Linux User Authentication with NSS and PAM

• Understanding authentication and authorization
• Name service switch (NSS)
• Advanced pluggable authentication modules (PAM) configuration

Unit 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

Unit 8:- Kerberos and LDAP

• Introduction to Kerberos
• Configuring the Kerberos key distribution center (KDC) and clients
• Configuring LDAP to support Kerberos

Unit 9-: Directory Referrals and Replication

• Referrals and replication
• Single master configuration
• Multiple master configuration
• Planning for directory server availability

Unit10-: Cross-Platform Centralized Identity Management

• Synchronizing Red Hat Directory Server with Active Directory
• Managing users with Winbind and LDAP
• Mapping attributes between Linux and Windows

EXAM DETAIL OF RH423-:

Exam duration:-RH423 Exam have only 1 secession

1st  secession = 4.00hr

Exam totally based on practical.

You must have a RHCE Certified and RH333 book.