Suppose you have an Internet Mail Access Protocol (IMAP) server and a bunch of users, but you don't want to give each user a shell account on the server. You'd rather use some sort of central ...

Jack Wallen shows you how to install OpenLDAP on Ubuntu 18.04 and how to add your first entry to the database. LDAP is the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, which allows for the querying and ...

For the past couple of months in the Paranoid Penguin column, we've been building an LDAP server. We've installed OpenLDAP; configured slapd, the server dæmon; made TLS encryption work; and created ...

Anyone care to venture on this? I use both the latter but keep hearing every now and again some very interesting things that can be done with LDAP. For example, having samba authenticate against ...

In an attempt to streamline Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) database access, French content management vendor Calendra Inc. on Tuesday released Version 3.0 of its Directory Manager ...

i am trying to leverage sssd to read automount info out of ldap, and mount user home dirs from a nas. i have several automounts already working, but the issue i am running into is the "dynamic" nature ...