From: Kurt Zeilenga <kurt@openldap.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:55:39 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add some basic network security information
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Add some basic network security information
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diff --git a/doc/guide/admin/security.sdf b/doc/guide/admin/security.sdf
index 2f9360e5ea..afff95557f 100644
--- a/doc/guide/admin/security.sdf
+++ b/doc/guide/admin/security.sdf
@@ -6,6 +6,59 @@ H1: Security Considerations
 OpenLDAP Software is designed to run in a wide variety of computing
 environments from tightly-controlled closed networks to the global
 Internet.  Hence, OpenLDAP Software provides many different security
-mechanisms.  This chapter discusses security considerations for
-using OpenLDAP Software.
+mechanisms.  This chapter describes these mechanisms and discusses
+security considerations for using OpenLDAP Software.
 
+H2: Host Security
+
+H2: Network Security
+
+H3: Selective Hearing
+
+By default, {{slapd}}(8) will listen on both the IPv4 and IPv6 "any"
+addresses.  It is often desirable to have {{slapd}} listen on select
+address/port pairs.  For example, listening only on the IPv4 address
+127.0.0.1 will disallow remote access to the directory server.
+
+While the server can be configured to listen on a particular interface
+address, this doesn't necessarily restrict access to the server to
+only those networks accessible via that interface.   To selective
+restrict remote access, it is recommend that an IP Firewall be
+used to restrict access.
+
+See {{SECT:Command-line Options}} and {{slapd}}(8) for more
+information.
+
+
+H3: IP Firewall
+
+IP firewall capabilities of the server system can be used to restrict
+access based upon the client's IP address and/or network interface
+used to communicate with the client.
+
+Generally, slapd(8) listens on port 389/tcp for LDAP over TCP (e.g.
+ldap://) and port 636/tcp for LDAP over SSL (e.g.  ldaps://).
+
+As specifics of how to configure IP firewall are dependent on the
+particular kind of IP firewall used, no examples are provided here.
+See the document associated with your IP firewall.
+
+
+H3: TCP Wrappers
+
+OpenLDAP supports TCP wrappers.  TCP wrappers provide a rule-based
+access control system for controlling TCP/IP access to the server.
+For example, the {{host_options}}(5) rule:
+
+>	slapd: 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 : ALLOW
+>	slapd: ALL : DENY
+
+allows only incoming connections from the private network 10 and
+localhost (127.0.0.1) to access the directory service.
+
+It is noted that TCP wrappers require the connection to be accepted.
+As significant processing is required just to deny a connection,
+it is generally advised that IP firewall protection be
+used instead of TCP wrappers.
+
+See {{hosts_access}}(5) for more information on TCP wrapper rules.