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LDAP Authentication in Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the roadmaps dept.

hausmasta writes "HowtoForge has published a walkthrough to show you how to store your users in LDAP and authenticate some of the services against it. It will not show how to install particular packages, as it is distribution/system dependent, instead it will focus on pure configuration of all components needed to have LDAP authentication/storage of users. The howto assumes that you are migrating from a regular passwd/shadow authentication, but it is also suitable for people who do it from scratch."

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  1. Re:Why would one want to do this? by ChrisA90278 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Why, Lets say you have a building full of computers they run Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Now you want to add a user to the system. Ideally he should have an account on all or some subset of the machines and his data should live on some server, so his folders and data are available no matter which machine he logs into. I think this is what users expect no days. OK so where do YOU keep his username and password. Do you go to each machine in the building and make an account for him? Likely not. So yu need some kind of database the Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Solaris and so on know how to querry. Gosh wouldn't it be need if the e-mail user directory and the company phone book could use the same data? LDAP will do all this.

    If you only had one machine at home, yes this would be pointless unless then goal was to learn about LDAP.