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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 any ldap messages are transferred without a starttls operation and 2 the ldaps connection must be closed upon tls closure some ldaps client libraries only encrypt communication they do not check the hostname against the name in the supplied certificate 24 abandon edit the abandon operation requests that the server abort an operation named by a message id the server need not honor the request neither abandon nor a successfully abandoned operation sends a response a similar cancel extended operation does send responses but not all implementations support this unbind edit the unbind operation abandons any outstanding operations and closes the connection it has no response the name is of historical origin and is not the opposite of the bind operation 25 clients can abort a session by simply closing the connection but they should use unbind 26 unbind allows the server to gracefully close the connection and free resources that it would otherwise keep for some time until discovering the client had abandoned the connection it also instructs the server to cancel operations that can be canceled and to not send responses for operations that cannot be canceled 27 uri scheme edit an ldap uniform resource identifier uri scheme exists which clients support in varying degrees and servers return in referrals and continuation references see rfc 4516 ldap host port dn attributes scope filter extensions most of the components described below are optional host is the fqdn or ip address of the ldap server to search port is the network port default port 389 of the ldap server dn is the distinguished name to use as the search base attributes is a comma separated list of attributes to retrieve scope specifies the search scope and can be base the default one or sub filter is a search filter for example objectclass as defined in rfc 4515 extensions are extensions to the ldap url format for example ldap ldap example com cn john 20doe dc example dc com refers to all user attributes in john doe s entry in ldap example com while ldap dc example dc com sub givenname john searches for the entry in the default server note the triple slash omitting the host and the double question mark omitting the attributes as in other urls special characters must be percent encoded there is a similar non standard ldaps uri scheme for ldap over ssl this should not be confused with ldap with tls which is achieved using the starttls operation using the standard ldap scheme schema edit the contents of the entries in a subtree are governed by a directory schema a set of definitions and constraints concerning the structure of the directory information tree dit the schema of a directory server defines a set of rules that govern the kinds of information that the server can hold it has a number of elements including attribute syntaxes provide information about the kind of information that can be stored in an attribute matching rules provide information about how to make comparisons against attribute values matching rule uses indicate which attribute types may be used in conjunction with a particular matching rule attribute types define an object identifier oid and a set of names that may refer to a given attribute and associate that attribute with a syntax and set of matching rules object classes define named collections of attributes and classify them into sets of required and optional attributes name forms define rules for the set of attributes that should be included in the rdn for an entry content rules define additional constraints about the object classes and attributes that may be used in conjunction with an entry structure rule define rules that govern the kinds of subordinate entries that a given entry may have attributes are the elements responsible for storing information in a directory and the schema defines the rules for which attributes may be used in an entry the kinds of values that those attributes may have and how clients may interact with those values clients may learn about the schema elements that the server supports by retrieving an appropriate subschema subentry the schema defines object classes each entry must have an objectclass attribute containing named classes defined in the schema the schema definition of the classes of an entry defines what kind of object the entry may represent e g a person organization or domain the object class definitions also define the list of attributes that must contain values and the list of attributes which may contain values for example an entry representing a person might belong to the classes top and person membership in the person class would require the entry to contain the sn and cn attributes and allow the entry also to contain userpassword telephonenumber and other attributes since entries may have multiple objectclasses values each entry has a complex of optional and mandatory attribute sets formed from the union of the object classes it represents objectclasses can be inherited and a single entry can have multiple objectclasses values that define the available and required attributes of the entry itself a parallel to the schema of an objectclass is a class definition and an instance in object oriented programming representing ldap objectclass and ldap entry respectively directory servers may publish the directory schema controlling an entry at a base dn given by the entry s subschemasubentry operational attribute an operational attribute describes operation of the directory rather than user information and is only returned from a search when it is explicitly requested server administrators can add additional schema entries in addition to the provided schema elements a schema for representing individual people within organizations is termed a white pages schema security vulnerabilities edit ldap injection edit ldap injection is a computer security attack similar to sql injection that can occur when an application implementing ldap fails to properly sanitize user input 28 as an example consider an ldap search query that allows the user to search people by their name the cn attribute a malicious user might replace a valid name with the character which matches any object with the cn attribute if the application is vulnerable to this attack it may display attributes that the searching user is not authorized to see 29 ldap injection vulnerabilities are mitigated by escaping variables escaping is accomplished with two distinct encoding functions one for distinguished names and one for search strings because they each allow different special characters some web frameworks come with escaping built in 30 man in the middle attacks edit like other parts of tcp ip ldap was originally created without encryption this makes it vulnerable to man in the middle attacks in which attackers intercept credentials during the bind process this attack can be mitigated by requiring ldaps or starttls during every bind involving credentials 31 variations edit much of the server operation is left to the implementor or administrator to decide accordingly servers may be set up to support a wide variety of scenarios for example data storage in the server is not specified the server may use flat files databases or just be a gateway to some other server access control is not standardized though there are commonly used models users passwords may be stored in their entries or elsewhere the server may refuse to perform operations when it wishes and impose various limits most parts of ldap are extensible examples one can define new operations controls may modify requests and responses e g to request sorted search 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