YaST REST Service Documentation

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LDAP Client

Only authenticated users are allowed to access the API. Authentication is done by sending a Basic HTTP Authorisation header.

All names aren't allowed to contain spaces, slashes or colons.

Table of Contents

Formats

The system REST service supports only XML and JSON input/output formats.

Overview

This module provides access to system's configuration as LDAP client.

It is possible to set LDAP server, base DN and information about encrypting the connection.

PolicyKit Access Rights

The following PolicyKit permission is needed to perform write actions:

org.opensuse.yast.modules.yapi.ldap.write

For read access, it is needed

org.opensuse.yast.modules.yapi.ldap.read

Actions

GET /ldap

Get LDAP client configuration data.

CURL Example: curl -u <user> http://localhost:4984/ldap.xml

Result: Example

PUT /ldap

Update the LDAP client configuration. New configuratin is returned as a result.

CURL example: curl -u -X PUT -H 'Content-type: text/xml' -d @save_request.xml http://localhost:4984/ldap.xml

Body: Example

Result: Example