LDAP has been around for over a decade, and yet it is still considered a newer technology.  Many modern vendors have added LDAP authentication.  This document is a brief generic howto for configuring linux to use LDAP.  This will be a fairly detailed recipe as most of my docs are. Linux Name Services Name Server Switch is the engine that really enables Linux to harness LDAP. In linux you have two different ldap.conf files that the modules and services use to configure their ldap communications '/etc/ldap.conf' and '/etc/openldap/ldap.com'. The first gives the dn's for passwd, group and sudoers. You can also specify...

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