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 ...

As systems get larger and the number of users they support increases, it becomes more difficult to manage systems using only the old-fashioned UNIX /etc/passwd file. A common solution to this problem ...

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 ...