But du cours
This course aims to train students in the administration and management of directory systems, which play a key role in centralizing and securing identity information and resources within an IT infrastructure. Students will learn to configure, administer, and operate directories to manage access, users, and permissions in a network environment.
Acquis d'apprentissage visés
- Set up, from design to production deployment, a company's IT network while integrating QoS and security issues.
- Manually deploy and administer services
- Produce and manage documentation for an IT infrastructure
Prérequis
- Engineering tools
- SYSRES UE course from S5
Programme
- Introduction to directory systems
- Definition and role of directories in system administration.
- Fundamental concepts: hierarchy, objects, attributes, and schemas.
- Standards and protocols: LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) and Active Directory.
- Installation and configuration of directory services
- Setting up a directory server.
- Creating and managing schemas: defining structures and custom attributes.
- Integrating directories into heterogeneous environments.
- User and group management
- Creating, modifying, and deleting user objects.
- Managing groups and roles: organizing permissions and access.
- Synchronization with other systems (SSO, identity management tools).
- Securing and optimizing directory systems
- Implementing security policies: role-based access control (RBAC) and secure authentication.
- Backup, replication, and high availability of directories.
- Performance optimization: indexing and advanced configuration.
- Practical project: designing and administering a directory
- Setting up a directory service for a fictional environment.
- Managing users, groups, and permissions.
- Applying security and performance concepts to the directory system.
Modalités d'évaluation
Continuous assessments and a lab report.
Bibliographie
UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, Fifth edition, 2017
Supports
Slides, guided work sheets, and practical work sheets.