LDAP Best Practices Wiki

This Wiki exists to collect good LDAP practices, particularly those relating to security. The idea is to make a list for sites to select from: items will not be applicable to every site, so intelligent choices must be made.

Please contribute your ideas: contact webmaster@ldap-best.org to get an account, and start adding pages.

• LDAP Security Best Practices
• LDAP General Best Practices

Background Information

• Best Practices paper by Andrew Findlay October 2011
• ISO 27000 series standards
• SANS SCORE security checklists

Server-specific Best Practices

• Best Practices Guide for Sun Java System Directory Server

Domain-specific Best Practices

• Identifiers, Authentication, and Directories from the Internet2 project
• Mark Craig's notes on LDAP client development

Wiki Utilities

• Wiki documentation and tutorials
• WebTopicList - all topics in alphabetical order
• WebChanges - recent topic changes in this web
• WebNotify - subscribe to an e-mail alert sent when topics change
• WebRss, WebAtom - RSS and ATOM news feeds of topic changes
• WebStatistics - listing popular topics and top contributors
• WebPreferences - preferences of this web