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* Authors: Jivka Bojilova
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* Copyright: 2000 Regents of the University of California and the
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* National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
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* For Details: http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/
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* Created: 2000 April 5
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* File Info: '$Id: ldap.html 881 2001-12-18 19:50:12Z berkley $'
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<TITLE>Metacat</TITLE>
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<td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p class="label">LDAP for User
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Authentication in Metacat</p></td>
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<p><b>Network of LDAP servers</b></p>
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<p>In the distributed network of Metacat servers, network of LDAP servers
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is implemented as a distributed storage of Metacat's users.
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Any Metacat instance running on particular site is configured to use
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certain LDAP instance both usually running on the same host.
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Several Metacat instances can use one LDAP instance. </p>
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<P> <img src="KNB-LDAP-system-small.gif"> </p>
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The distributed scheme of LDAP servers represents a hierarchy of nodes
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where in the leaves are the particular users used by the Metacat servers
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for authentication.
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The LDAP tree starts from the root context for the Knowledge
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Network of Biocomplexity.:
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<pre> dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org </pre>
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The nodes on the second level represent the subtrees of the major Metacat
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sites such as NCEAS, LTER, etc.: </p>
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o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org <br>
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o=LTER,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org </pre>
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Look at the example for the
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<a target="_top" href="entries-init.ldif">initial entries of KNB main tree</a>
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The third level contains the nodes of the particular users and groups.
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Users can be organized in groups. This allow Metacat to control access
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to a group of users.
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<pre>Definition of KNB development group at NCEAS:
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dn: cn=knb-dev,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org
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objectClass: top
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cn: knb-dev
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uniqueMember: uid=jones,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org
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uniqueMember: uid=bojilova,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org
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uniqueMember: uid=berkley,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org
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uniqueMember: uid=higgins,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org
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uniqueMember: uid=harris,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org
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description: KNB development group at NCEAS </pre>
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<pre>Definition of a user from NCEAS subtree:
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title: Data Integration Developer </pre>
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user entries in KNB</a>.<br><br>
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