December 5, 2015
After many years of using Using OpenLDAP for User Authentication, and Using Kerberos 5 for Single Sign-On Authentication, it was time to look at FreeIPA as a way of streamlining everything. Important Note: You will want to have FreeIPA on it’s own system (whether this is a …
December 12, 2012
So I’ve been having to deal with some IPA-related bugs in the past little bit, which of course got me thinking that I had no idea what IPA did or how to use it (thankfully I wasn’t responsible for fixing the bugs!). But as I had to deal with this issues to some …
February 23, 2011
Well, I’ve begun the migration and probably picked the hardest machine to start with. One of my goals here was to do a clean migration from a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 box to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 box for a specific set of services, and to intentionally have SELinux …
October 31, 2010
NOTE: This is a revision of the previous LDAP authentication article on MandrakeSecure. A second revision is available on that site, but it is also more or less specific to Mandrakelinux whereas this topic will eventually cover as many different Linux and BSD implementations as …
March 28, 2008
Copyright © 2003 Buchan Milne Originally written for the MandrakeSecure website. In what is now becoming a series on LDAP, previous articles have already covered basic LDAP setup and UNIX authentication, and the basics of building a samba PDC backended on OpenLDAP. However, many …
March 25, 2008
One of the best uses for LDAP is as an address book. Whether this is a company white pages or a personal (or distributed) email address book, LDAP makes for a great means of storing addresses that are not often changed. This will detail my own personal experiences in setting up …
March 25, 2008
Copyright © 2003 Jim Colling Originally written for the MandrakeSecure website. The example server box is i686 Mandrake 9.0 with all the updates I can get my hands on. To cut down on network traffic and to ease security, it houses both the OpenLDAP server and Samba. It has also …
July 18, 2005
I find LDAP for authentication highly irritating. It’s better than some alternatives, like NIS (haven’t looked at NIS+ so I don’t know how it measures up), but man oh man, it’s a real nuisance sometimes. I wrote that LDAP Authentication piece when there …