Jack Wallen shows you how to install OpenLDAP on Ubuntu 18.04 and how to add your first entry to the database.

Many readers have used our December 2002 article, “OpenLDAP Everywhere”, to achieve unified login company-wide. Since then, OpenLDAP and Linux have progressed. Here, we demonstrate the use of OpenLDAP ...

Information inside an LDAP directory is stored in "entries". Each entry is a collection of attributes that have a globally unique Distinguished Name (DN), which contain a type and one or more values.

At my workplace, we're seriously courting rolling out Linux-based workstations. We're using LDAP for our backend already, so this should be a ...

Recently, I walked you through the process of deploying OpenLDAP server on Ubuntu Server 22.04. Following that guide, you should also have access to the user-friendly LDAP Account Manager (LAM ...

So, i'm migrating our samba fileserver from Ubuntu 6.06 to 8.04 and onto new hardware as well and have run into a problem with the valid user directive.We have samba setup to authenticate against ...