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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network.

LDAP is an application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network.

Directory services may provide any organized set of records, often with a hierarchical structure, such as a corporate email directory. Similarly, a telephone directory is a list of subscribers with an address and a phone number.

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How to configure Ubuntu as an LDAP client?

How to configure Ubuntu 12.04 as LDAP client with PAM modules?
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How to install ldapsearch on 16.04?

Coming from Trusty, I was used to ldapsearch but I don't have it installed on my new Xerus install: The program 'ldapsearch' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt install ldap-utils But unfortunately this results in…
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'Failed to find session configuration default' (lightdm.log)

When trying to log onto a Kubuntu 14.04 LTS system. I noticed that all users would pass, when logging in via ssh, but graphical login (i.e. LightDM with the KDE greeter) would just be possible for local accounts. More precise: LDAP users would be…
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How to Get a Windows Client to Authenticate against a Linux LDAP Server

How can we set Windows clients to authenticate against an LDAP Server running on Ubuntu?
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Error trying to get a non-existent value (appearance, password_hash) in LDAP

I have installed LDAP and phpLDAPadmin on my Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr). It is working, and I'm able to access phpLDAPadmin GUI and am also able to create OU and groups using the GUI, but I'm not able to create users. When I try to create a user I…
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GUI tool to configure LDAP client

I am using this wiki to configure LDAP client on Ubuntu. Now I am looking for a GUI tool to configure LDAP client on Ubuntu. My colleagues often complains that configuring LDAP client on Ubuntu is little difficult. Is there any simple GUI tool for…
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How do I setup a LDAP-backed IRC server?

How can I configure an IRC server that is backed by LDAP? Right now, I'm looking at making an IRC server that is backed by an OpenLDAP or 389 instance for user authentication. Which IRCD should I be using? Preferably, it should be able to look up…
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slapd with back_sock does not create a socket

I have installed slapd on Ubuntu 12.04 and configured it with the following under /etc/ldap/slapd.conf: modulepath /usr/lib/ldap moduleload back_sock.la database sock socketpath /tmp/slapd.sock However, if I start slapd with service slapd restart…
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How can I increase the maximum number of simultaneous users to log in to a server?

I use ubuntu server 10.04 on a fairly good machine, with 2.40 dual-core processor and 2GB RAM. My users login with ssh or samba. I have setup LDAP with PAM to sync user accounts between unix and samba. When I allowed about 90 users to login over…
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Why is my sssd.conf file missing after installing sssd?

I'm new to linux and decided to play around with building a server to learn more. I have been following the following guide: http://www.danbishop.org/2012/06/02/ubuntu-12-04-ultimate-server-guide/ Everything has been going well. I have a functioning…
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What happens to LDAP user authentication and NFS home directory shares when away from the network?

At present I have several machines on the home network which are a mixture of static desktops and laptops. Its getting unmanageable for me and impractical for all of them to have local home directories, settings and security so I am considering…
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Going from a shared NFS /home to a full LDAP solution

I recently deployed about a dozen Ubuntu (Karmic) desktops in a small office. Everything was going great, but storage became an issue. I then moved /home to an NFS mount which solved the immediate problem. Months later, I'm regretting this. The…
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Ubuntu 14.04 system hangs after installing pam module for ldap client with intel_rapl: no valid rapl domains found in package 0

I am running VMWare Workstation 10.0.2 on a Windows 8.1 host. I installed Ubuntu Server 14.04 as a virtual machine. Everything works fine. All updates, upgrades and dist-upgrades are installed. After that I followed this procedure to connect to my…
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16.04 server: enabling LDAP authentication causes systemd-logind to fail

I'm stumped here, sorry if I'm missing something obvious. I had a 16.04 server authenticating against LDAP that stopped working last time I ran updates, and I built a clean 16.04 server from scratch, ran standard updates, and it works fine until I…
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How do I set up Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS to serve as a samba Primary Domain Controller uses pam modules to authenticate against an LDAP server?

I'd like to have a Samba server that appears as a Primary Domain Controller (PDC) to a bunch of windows lab computers. But instead of having the users have accounts with passwords stored on this Samba PDC, I'd like to have all the account…
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