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DESCRIPTION: ↑

Configures a server to be an OpenLDAP master, OpenLDAP replication slave, or OpenLDAP client.

REQUIREMENTS: ↑

Platform: ↑

Ubuntu 8.10 was primarily used in testing this cookbook. Other Ubuntu versions and Debian may work. CentOS and Red Hat are not fully supported, but we take patches.

Recipes: ↑

  • openssh

  • nscd

ATTRIBUTES: ↑

Be aware of the attributes used by this cookbook and adjust the defaults for your environment where required, in attributes/openldap.rb.

Client node attributes ↑

  • openldap - basedn

  • openldap - the LDAP server fully qualified domain name, default ‘ldap’.node.

Server node attributes ↑

  • openldap - master | slave

  • openldap - unique integer ID, required if type is slave.

  • openldap - hostname of slapd master, attempts to search for slapd_type master.

Apache configuration attributes ↑

Attributes useful for Apache authentication with LDAP.

COOK-128 - set automatically based on openldap and openldap if those attributes are set. openldap remains nil by default as a default value is not easily predicted.

  • openldap - determine whether binddn and bindpw are required (openldap no, ad yes)

  • openldap - AuthLDAPURL

  • openldap - AuthLDAPBindDN

  • openldap - AuthLDAPBindPassword

USAGE: ↑

Edit Rakefile variables for SSL certificate.

On client systems,

include_recipe "openldap::auth"

This will get the required packages and configuration for client systems. This will be required on server systems as well, so this is a good candidate for inclusion in a site-cookbooks/base.

On server systems, set the server node attributes in the Chef node, or in a JSON attributes file. Include the openldap::server recipe:

include_recipe "openldap::server"

When initially installing a brand new LDAP master server on Ubuntu 8.10, the configuration directory may need to be removed and recreated before slapd will start successfully. Doing this programmatically may cause other issues, so fix the directory manually :-).

$ sudo slaptest -F /etc/ldap/slapd.d
str2entry: invalid value for attributeType objectClass #1 (syntax 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.38)
=> ldif_enum_tree: failed to read entry for /etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn=config/olcDatabase={1}bdb.ldif
slaptest: bad configuration directory!

Simply remove the configuration, rerun chef-client. For some reason slapd isn’t getting started even though the service resource is notified to start, so start it manually.

$ sudo rm -rf /etc/ldap/slapd.d/ /etc/ldap/slapd.conf
$ sudo chef-client
$ sudo /etc/init.d/slapd start

A note about certificates ↑

Certificates created by the Rakefile are self signed. If you have a purchased CA, that can be used. Be sure to update the certificate locations in the templates as required. We suggest copying this cookbook to the site-cookbooks for such modifications, so you can still pull from our master for updates, and then merge your changes in.

NEW DIRECTORY: ↑

If installing for the first time, the initial directory needs to be created. Create an ldif file, and start populating the directory.

PASSWORDS: ↑

Set the password, openldap for the rootdn in the node’s attributes. This should be a password hash generated from slappasswd. The default slappasswd command on Ubuntu 8.10 and Mac OS X 10.5 will generate a SHA1 hash:

$ slappasswd -s "secretsauce"
{SSHA}6BjlvtSbVCL88li8IorkqMSofkLio58/

Set this by default in the attributes file, or on the node’s entry in the webui.

LICENSE & AUTHOR: ↑

Author

Joshua Timberman (<joshua@opscode.com>)

Copyright

2009, Opscode, Inc

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.