Posts Tagged with 'ldap'

Juliet Kemp explains how to install and configure LDAP, and get it working with Kerberos, to provide a powerful solution for secure authentication.

Kerberos and LDAP are popular, separately, but if you put them together they provide a powerful solution for secure authentication. In the first of two tutorials, Juliet Kemp walks through installation and configuration of Kerberos.

This month, we conclude our look at OpenLDAP. In our previous two columns, we considered the basics steps involved with setting up an LDAP-based directory service as well as ways of using one for user authentication.

This month, we continue our exploration of LDAP: the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. If you followed along last month, you should now have a working LDAP server. Now we'll look at two ways of using it -- for a company directory and for user authentication. But first, let's take a look at LDAP schema.

For years now, every time anyone put together a list of hot system administration topics, LDAP was sure to be near the top. This is the first article in a three-part series about LDAP and, specifically, OpenLDAP on Linux systems. In this first part, we will explore some basic LDAP concepts and show a few example queries and configuration options. In the second part, we'll look at how to integrate LDAP into normal system functions like user authentication. In part three, we will close the series by considering some advanced LDAP topics, including authentication, security, and data replication among multiple servers.