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the open systems interconnection osi protocol stack ldap was originally intended to be a lightweight alternative protocol for accessing x 500 directory services through the simpler and now widespread tcp ip protocol stack this model of directory access was borrowed from the dixie and directory assistance service protocols the protocol was originally created 10 by tim howes of the university of michigan steve kille of isode limited colin robbins of nexor and wengyik yeong of performance systems international circa 1993 as a successor 11 to dixie and das mark wahl of critical angle inc tim howes and steve kille started work in 1996 on a new version of ldap ldapv3 under the aegis of the internet engineering task force ietf ldapv3 first published in 1997 superseded ldapv2 and added support for extensibility integrated the simple authentication and security layer and better aligned the protocol to the 1993 edition of x 500 further development of the ldapv3 specifications themselves and of numerous extensions adding features to ldapv3 has come through the ietf in the early engineering stages of ldap it was known as lightweight directory browsing protocol or ldbp it was renamed with the expansion of the scope of the protocol beyond directory browsing and searching to include directory update functions it was given its lightweight name because it was not as network intensive as its dap predecessor and thus was more easily implemented over the internet due to its relatively modest bandwidth usage ldap has influenced subsequent internet protocols including later versions of x 500 xml enabled directory xed directory service markup language dsml service provisioning markup language spml and the service location protocol slp it is also used as the basis for microsoft s active directory protocol overview edit a client starts an ldap session by connecting to an ldap server called a directory system agent dsa by default on tcp and udp port 389 or on port 636 for ldaps ldap over tls ssl see below 12 the client then sends an operation request to the server and a server sends responses in return with some exceptions the client does not need to wait for a response before sending the next request and the server may send the responses in any order all information is transmitted using basic encoding rules ber the client may request the following operations starttls use the ldapv3 transport layer security tls extension for a secure connection bind authenticate and specify ldap protocol version search search for and or retrieve directory entries compare test if a named entry contains a given attribute value add a new entry delete an entry modify an entry modify distinguished name dn move or rename an entry abandon abort a previous request extended operation generic operation used to define other operations unbind close the connection not the inverse of bind in addition the server may send unsolicited notifications that are not responses to any request e g before the connection is timed out a common alternative method of securing ldap communication is using an ssl tunnel the default port for ldap over ssl is 636 the use of ldap over ssl was common in ldap version 2 ldapv2 but it was never standardized in any formal specification this usage has been deprecated along with ldapv2 which was officially retired in 2003 13 directory structure edit the protocol provides an interface with directories that follow the 1993 edition of the x 500 model an entry consists of a set of attributes an attribute has a name an attribute type or attribute description and one or more values the attributes are defined in a schema see below each entry has a unique identifier its distinguished name dn this consists of its relative distinguished name rdn constructed from some attribute s in the entry followed by the parent entry s dn think of the dn as the full file path and the rdn as its relative filename in its parent folder e g if foo bar myfile txt were the dn then myfile txt would be the rdn a dn may change over the lifetime of the entry for instance when entries are moved within a tree to reliably and unambiguously identify entries a uuid might be provided in the set of the entry s operational attributes an entry can look like this when represented in ldap data interchange format ldif a plain text format as opposed to a binary protocol such as ldap itself dn cn john doe dc example dc com cn john doe givenname john sn doe telephonenumber 1 888 555 6789 telephonenumber 1 888 555 1232 mail john example com manager cn barbara doe dc example dc com objectclass inetorgperson objectclass organizationalperson objectclass person objectclass top dn is the distinguished name of the entry it is neither an attribute nor a part of the entry cn john doe is the entry s rdn relative distinguished name and dc example dc com is the dn of the parent entry where dc denotes domain component the other lines show the attributes in the entry attribute names are typically mnemonic strings like cn for common name dc for domain component mail for email address and sn for surname 14 a server holds a subtree starting from a specific entry e g dc example dc com and its children servers may also hold references to other servers so an attempt to access ou department dc example dc com could return a referral or continuation reference to a server that holds that part of the directory tree the client can then contact the other server some servers also support chaining which means the server contacts the other server and returns the results to the client ldap rarely defines any ordering the server may return the values of an attribute the attributes in an entry and the entries found by a search operation in any order this follows from the formal definitions an entry is defined as a set of attributes and an attribute is a set of values and sets need not be ordered operations edit add edit the add operation inserts a new entry into the directory server database 15 if the distinguished name in the add request already exists in the directory then the server will not add a duplicate entry but will set the result code in the add result to decimal 68 entryalreadyexists 16 ldap compliant servers will never dereference the distinguished name transmitted in the add request when attempting to locate the entry that is distinguished names are never de aliased ldap compliant servers will ensure that the distinguished name and all attributes conform to naming standards the entry to be added must not exist and the immediate superior must exist dn uid user ou people dc example dc com changetype add objectclass top objectclass person uid user sn last name cn common name userpassword password in the above example uid user ou people dc example dc com must not exist and ou people dc example dc com must exist bind authenticate edit when an ldap session is created that is when an ldap client connects to the server the authentication state of the session is set to anonymous the bind operation establishes the authentication state for a session simple bind and sasl plain can send the user s dn and password in plaintext so the connections utilizing either simple or sasl plain should be encrypted using transport layer security tls the server typically checks the password against the userpassword attribute in the named entry anonymous bind with empty dn and password resets the connection to anonymous state simple authentication and security layer sasl bind provides authentication services through a wide range of mechanisms e g kerberos or the client certificate sent with tls 17 bind also sets the ldap protocol version by sending a version number as an integer if the client requests a version that the server does not support the server must set the result code in the bind response to the code for a protocol error normally clients should use ldapv3 which is the default in the protocol but not always in ldap libraries bind had to be the first operation in a session in ldapv2 but is not required as of ldapv3 in ldapv3 each successful bind request changes the authentication state of the session and each unsuccessful bind request resets the authentication state of the session delete edit to delete an entry an ldap client transmits a properly formed delete request to the server 18 a delete request must contain the distinguished name of the entry to be deleted request controls may also be attached to the delete request servers do not dereference aliases when processing a delete request only leaf entries entries with no subordinates may be deleted by a delete request some servers support an operational attribute hassubordinates whose value indicates whether an entry has any subordinate entries and some servers support an operational attribute numsubordinates 19 indicating the number of entries subordinate to the entry containing the numsubordinates attribute some servers support the subtree delete request control permitting deletion of the dn and all objects subordinate to the dn subject to access controls delete requests are subject to access controls that is whether a connection with a given authentication state will be permitted to delete a given entry is governed by server specific access control mechanisms search and compare edit the search operation is used to both search for and read entries its parameters are baseobject the name of the base object entry or possibly the root relative to which the search is to be performed scope what elements below the baseobject to search this can be baseobject search just the named entry typically used to read one entry singlelevel entries immediately below the base dn or wholesubtree the entire subtree starting at the base dn filter criteria to use in selecting elements within scope for example the filter objectclass person givenname john mail john will select persons elements of objectclass person where the matching rules for givenname and mail determine whether the values for those attributes match the filter assertion note that a common misconception is that ldap data is case sensitive whereas in fact matching rules and ordering rules determine matching comparisons and relative value relationships if the example filters were required to match the case of the attribute value an extensible match filter must be used for example objectclass person givenname caseexactmatch john mail caseexactsubstringsmatch john derefaliases whether and how to follow alias entries entries that refer to other entries attributes which attributes to return in result entries sizelimit timelimit maximum number of entries to return and maximum time to allow search to run these values however cannot override any restrictions the server places on size limit and time limit typesonly return attribute types only not attribute values the server returns the matching entries and potentially continuation references these may be returned in any order the final result will include the result code the compare operation takes a dn an attribute name and an attribute value and checks if the named entry contains that attribute with that value modify edit the modify operation is used by ldap clients to request that the ldap server make changes to existing entries 20 attempts to modify entries that do not exist will fail modify requests are subject to access controls as implemented by the server the modify operation requires that the distinguished name dn of the entry be specified and a sequence of changes each change in the sequence must be one of add add a new value which must not already exist in the attribute delete delete an existing value replace replace an existing value with a new value ldif example of adding a value to an attribute dn dc example dc com changetype modify add cn cn the new cn value to be added to replace the value of an existing attribute use the replace keyword if the attribute is multi valued the client must specify the value of the attribute to update to delete an attribute from an entry use the keyword delete and the changetype designator modify if the attribute is multi valued the client must specify the value of the attribute to delete there is also a modify increment extension 21 which allows an incrementable attribute value to be incremented by a specified amount the following example using ldif increments employeenumber by 5 dn uid user 0 ou people dc example dc com changetype modify increment employeenumber employeenumber 5 when ldap servers are in a replicated topology ldap clients should consider using the post read control to verify updates instead of a search after an update 22 the post read control is designed so that applications need not issue a search request after an update it is bad form to retrieve an entry for the sole purpose of checking that an update worked because of the replication eventual consistency model an ldap client should not assume that it connects to the same directory server for each request because architects may have placed load balancers or ldap proxies or both between ldap clients and servers modify dn edit modify dn move rename entry takes the new rdn relative distinguished name optionally the new parent s dn and a flag that indicates whether to delete the value s in the entry that match the old rdn the server may support renaming of entire directory subtrees an update operation is atomic other operations will see either the new entry or the old one on the other hand ldap does not define transactions of multiple operations if you read an entry and then modify it another client may have updated the entry in the meantime servers may implement extensions 23 that support this though extended operations edit the extended operation is a generic ldap operation that can define new operations that were not part of the original protocol specification starttls is one of the most significant extensions other examples include cancel and password modify citation needed starttls edit the starttls operation establishes transport layer security the descendant of ssl on the connection it can provide data confidentiality to protect data from being observed by third parties and or data integrity protection which protects the data from tampering during tls negotiation the server sends its x 509 certificate to prove its identity the client may also send a certificate to prove its identity after doing so the client may then use sasl external by using sasl external the client requests the server derive its identity from credentials provided at a lower level such as tls though technically the server may use any identity information established at any lower level typically the server will use the identity information established by tls servers also often support the non standard ldaps secure ldap commonly known as ldap over ssl protocol on a separate port by default 636 ldaps differs from ldap in two ways 1 upon connect the client and server establish tls before 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