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7.2.3 Remote OSD Administration Tab
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7. Administration
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Customizing the OpenLDAP Schema
The schema that slapd uses may be extended to support additional
syntaxes, matching rules, attribute types, and object classes. In the case
oftheKVM,theUser class and the permission attribute are extended
to define a new schema. The extended schema file used to authenticate
andauthorizeusersloggingintotheKVMswitchisshowninthe
following figure:
LDAP Data Stucture
AnLDAPdirectorystoresinformationinatreestructureknownasthe
Directory Information Tree (DIT). The nodes in the tree are directory
entries,andeachentrycontainsinformationinattribute-valueform.An
exampleoftheLDAPdirectorytreeisshowninthefigure:
DIT Creation
The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF)isusedtorepresentLDAP
entriesinasimpletextformat(pleaserefertoRFC2849).The
followingfigureillustratesanLDIFfilethatcreatestheDITforthe
KVMdirectorytree:
ThefollowingfigureillustratesanLDIFfilethatdefinesthe
OpenLDAPgroupfortheKVM.