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the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), a protocol used for modifying and querying items stored in directory services

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Why am I getting apparmor error messages in the syslog about NTP and LDAP?

On my newly installed Ubuntu 12.04 machine, with ntp and slapd installed, the following messages appear in /var/log/syslog at regular intervals: Feb 23 18:54:07 my-host kernel: [ 24.610703] type=1400 audit(1393181647.872:15): apparmor="DENIED"…
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Linux solution for schools?

The school I'm working for as an administrator requested a system upgrade. Currently we are using a government-suggested Linux distribution called SuliXerver - it would be great, but most of the admin functions have been disabled, and are controlled…
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How to make ldapsearch working on SLES over tls using certificate?

We need to connect our php script to LDAP over tls using a certificate. LDAP connection works nicely without tls. More details here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15260252/how-to-use-multiple-tls-certificates-for-ldap-from-php-zend We managed…
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Groups differ from the local ones when logging in remotely

We store our users in LDAP, alongside some groups that have meaning across different systems (organizational roles including wheel). There are also groups local to workstations, e.g. audio or video that are not desirable to be put into LDAP. Now if…
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Autofs doesn't mount shares on startup

I am using OpenSuSE 12.1 with homes shared through LDAP and NFS. ldap stores the maps. My problem is I can't have the shares mounted on boot. It's only working when restarting the autofs service manually. On a CentOS 6.3 there is no such…
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Home Directories and pam.d using LDAP

Background: I'm not too familiar with the ins and outs of pam and LDAP authentication on a configuration side. I've used systems that use pam but I've only worked on applications, not systems themselves. Questions: Using pam to control…
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PAM vs LDAP vs SSSD vs Kerberos

I am basically aware of what these services do separate from each other. What I want to know: what exactly happens on a successful login in a linux based network that uses all of these services? In which order these services are consulted? What…
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Setting up a unix powered network

I want to set up several computers on a LAN, all connecting to one unix server. The primary goal being that the user accounts should only exist on the server. So that any user could access his normal interface through any of the given…
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How would you migrate from a Windows AD to a Linux LDAP server?

I currently run a Windows server with Active Directory. But since we're no longer using Exchange 2007, it became a fancy file server with authentication. I would like to move the AD to a Linux server. What would be the best way to do this? And which…
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basic explanation on NSS , LDAP and PAM

can anyone give me a basic explanation on what are NSS , LDAP and PAM and what they used for and what is their relationship/differences ?
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Sudo permissions by ldap groups via nslcd

I have a problem with my sudo permissions in an MS ActiveDirectory to Debian LDAP authentication/authorization setup. What I have so far I've configured nslcd with libpam-ldap via ldaps and ssh login is working great. getent passwd…
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Howto set access control lists ACLs in OpenLDAP

I'm using the Debian Squeeze OpenLDAP. Where can I set ACLs? Isn't it possible to execute the access to directives with ldapmodify? There's no slapd.conf file in Debian, they use a slapd.d folder
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Why does LibreOffice (at least as packaged for Debian) depend on libldap?

The Debian package libreoffice-core (which is described in the Debian repositories as containing " the architecture-dependent core files of LibreOffice," and which is itself a dependency for libreoffice-writer and similar packages) has an absolute…
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OpenLDAP Password Policy overlay error while loading

I'm trying to load the password policy overlay but I'm having the following error: ldapadd -Wx -D "cn=Manager,cn=config" -f overlay.ldif Enter LDAP Password: adding new entry "olcOverlay=ppolicy,olcDatabase={0}bdb,cn=config" ldap_add: No such…
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Missing config file for SSSD?

I want to make an CentOS 7 installation with LDAP authentication, so I installed authconfig-gtk, sssd and krb5-workstation. When I tried to start the service, I've got a message telling me that there is no config file under /etc/sssd/. I did some…
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