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

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Ubuntu 12.04: LDAP Invalid credentials

I posted this question after tried solutions from google and stackoverflow. I am using ubuntu 12.04. I installed ldap and slapd in my machine. On installation , it prompted for admin password. ...
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Ubuntu : Kerberos With LDAP

I am using ubuntu 12.04. I am installing LDAP with Kerberos authentication. I followed the steps in the ubuntu documentation. https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/kerberos-ldap.html After ...
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Freeipa client on Ubuntu.

Does anyone have a good guide to get freeipa client installed and running on Ubuntu 13.04? Just so I head off everyone up front, yes I know freeipa-client is a package, yes I know it has the ...
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Ubuntu 13.04: LDAP invalid credentials

I'm trying to follow the Ubuntu official OpenLDAPServer guide with no success. When I tried to log into the server it says( ...
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Ldap and apache config [closed]

I need help to configure my apache. I have a folder in my var/www/privado I want to add authentication to access this folder This is my httpd.conf LoadModule ldap_module modules/mod_ldap.so ...
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ldap postgresql backend segmentation fault

I am running the latest version of LDAP on XUbuntu 12.4 LTS and it works pretty fine as long as I use hdb or bdb as the backend. Nevertheless when I change the backend to sql and try to restart the ...
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What is the name of application that use in Linux similar to Active Directory in Windows? [duplicate]

What is the name of application that use in Linux similar to Active Directory in Windows? And how to install and configure it on Kubuntu 12.04 LTS?
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How to debug LDAP addressbook connection in Evolution

When searching an address book on an active directory I get the error: Cannot get contact list: LDAP error 0x1 (Operations error) how can I get more detailed information?
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How can I perform the su command to switch to a network user without a password?

I have a local user and a network user (authenticated over LDAP) that I frequently use su to switch to for certain tasks. I'm wondering how I can avoid typing the password for the network user every ...
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LDAP / AD timeout issues

We are having issues which somehow related to LDAP and/or PAM and/or .... The issue is that user lookup goes away. Eg on an ssh session I started a few days ago I get for whomai xxx:/etc/init.d$ ...
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How to disable a specific mount, when using automount over LDAP

I am using Ubuntu 11.04, on which NFS paths are automounted using AutoFS/LDAP. For example, /path1 and /path2 are auto mounted, but I want to disable automount for /path1, because I want to use a ...
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LDAP noob here needing some help

At our office, we have a bunch of contacts (about 900 or so) stored in vcard format. I want everyone in the office (about 10 computers) to be able to open the contacts and view them using something ...
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LDAP and Thin Clients

I currently have a Sun/Oracle Enterprise Directory Server setup. I want to if possible authenticate my thin LTS clients to prevent the burden of local accounts and adhere to company policy. I have ...
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How to configure pam.d files for ldap over ssh on 12.04?

I'm trying to set up an Ubuntu 12.04 server so that users with a valid account in a remote ldap server can login to the ubuntu server. I've followed this guide closely: ...
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Avoiding the execution upon its installation ldap-auth-config

I am trying to automate (by using a bash script) the installation of packages for LDAP authentication. However, the script is being interrupted by the ldap-auth-config dialog. Is there a way to avoid ...
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login not poosible because no password prompt

I have a somewhat odd problem. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and yesterday I installed and configured LDAP for centralized login. I created a new user "test" in the ldap directory. I wanted to login with ...
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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 ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 lightdm is listing all the LDAP users logged in to the system

I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed with lightdm display manager on my machine in office. I have enabled LDAP authentication and it works fine. The problem is every user who logs in to the machine using ...
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How to enable LDAP in XAMPP?

I am trying to enable LDAP in XAMPP 1.8.1 on Ubuntu 12.10. Can any one help me out, how to do it? When I did bit of googling, most of links were talking about Windows operating system. No where I ...
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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/ ...
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Can Windows Active Directory users log into a PHP app on an Ubuntu server adjoined to Windows AD?

I have adjoined successfully an Ubuntu server 12.04 to a Windows Active Directory (AD). (How: http://www.iasptk.com/ubuntu/21071-join-an-ubuntu-server-or-desktop-to-active-directory-). Now all ...
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Postfix Dovecot LDAP: user not found in local recipient table

I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 Server and have installed Postfix and Dovecot. I have an external LDAP Server for the auth. I can receive Emails with IMAP, but when I try to send an Email I get the following ...
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Connecting to Mac Server samba share with ldap user doesn't work anymore (12.04+)

This used to work before 12.04 and now it's giving me headaches ;) Statements are: Mac Server OS version is 10.6.8 mac to mac via samba ok ubuntu <12.04 via samba ok ubuntu >12.04 via samba ...
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dovecot: auth: ldap(xxx): unknown user

I'm hoping I can use some help. I'm configuring dovecot_ldap, but I can't seem to be able to get dovecot to authenticate the ldap user. Below is my config and log info: hosts = 192.168.128.45:3268 ...
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Is there a way to load dconf settings based on LDAP group?

i am looking for a way to replace MS AD. So i came across this document that kinda does it: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SingleSignOn#Login_Manager_Configuration but i would like to further lock ...
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join ubuntu client to samba pcd with ldap authentication

I need to join a client to domain controller with ldap authentication. For now I have pcd and ldap. I populated the bd and the windows client can join to the domain with the users I have in ldap, but ...
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Configuration of LDAP client on 12.04 [duplicate]

We have here a way to log in the computers base on Ldap(openldap). You can use any seat with the login/pass you have. Well my problem is that everything worked fine till I had to upgrade Ubuntu to the ...
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Advice for addressbook server - LDAP, SyncML, CardDAV, or something else

I'm looking for a solution to share a single address book across my Windows 7 laptop, Android phone and Ubuntu home server. The address book should be synced to the phone so it is available when ...
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How to promote ldap user to adminstrator role?

I am doing this project to centralize the auth from openldap, I trap the problem below: now my ldap users asign to the sudo group(command 'id'),so I can do all the implent from the command terminal, ...
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effect of Installing ldap server

I am new to the ldap server and I want to install a ldap server in my Ubuntu dedicated server. My ubuntu dedicated server has LAMP and other application servers installed and many websites are being ...
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Migrating a Windows Server to Ubuntu Server to provide Samba, AFP and Roaming Profiles

I'm replacing our old Windows XP Pro office server with a HP Microserver running Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS. I'm not a Linux expert but I can find my way around a terminal prompt, I'm a Mac user by ...
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NFS users getting a laggy GUI expierence

I am setting up a system (ubuntu 12.04) that uses ldap, pam, and autofs to load users and their home folders from a remote server. One of the options for login is sitting down at the machine and ...
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Wrong NFS group after upgrade to Precise

I just upgraded an NFS client from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04. After this, the ownership of mounted files and directories is incorrect: For all of them the group "nogroup" is shown while the user is ...
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root login after ldap install?

I have set up ldap on my local network following the Ubuntu Manual. For some reason (after ldap setup, not before), it seems to have made a root entity in my ldap tree, which now allows for the ...
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Can not authenticate bugzilla to LDAP with any user but administrator

My Bugzilla4 works perfectly. I am trying to enhance our security, so I have created a special user on our domain called: srv.ldap - It should only have LDAP access, and be used for this reason only. ...
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ldap client cannot contact ldap server

I have followed these instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/openldap-server.html#openldap-auth-config The ldap server works fine. I can log into it using an ldap account. However, ...
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What is the attribute used to display the username for lightdm? Is it something I can change?

Right now it looks like my username is being displayed based on the sn LDAP attribute. I'd prefer it to be displayName or gecos, is that something I can configure either via lightdm or ldap.conf?
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Could not connect to any LDAP server as (null) error

I am using a Windows 2008 Server as my LDAP server and on a Ubuntu 12.04 client I am trying to connect to it. I get the following error: nss_ldap: could not connect to any LDAP server as (null) - ...
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Is there a simple tutorial for ldap?

I'm looking for something targeted at a complete beginner. It's not setting up the package itself that I'm concerned with, but rather a way to set up a schema.
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Configuring PAM with LDAP and Kerberos

I am trying to configure PAM with LDAP and Kerberos for authentication. Command id <username> is working fine so LDAP seems to be working fine and also kinit is working (followed by klist) and ...
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How can I prevent autofs from mounting local user's home?

I've set up NFS and LDAP on an Ubuntu server. The client is configured to mount the home directory (NFS via Autofs) when a user logs in, which all runs perfectly well. However, autofs also tries to ...
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user management for 10+ ubuntu machines

We have two ubuntu servers and 10 ubuntu client machines. I want to maintain all users from the server something like Active Directory in windows. Is there any GUI for maintaining and achieving such ? ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LDAP client issue

I followed the guide described here configure LDAP, but I keep getting following error when running "getent passwd", is there any reason for that? Error: Jul 16 15:58:33 wso2-VirtualBox getent: ...
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How to make full domain controller with active directory?

How to make full domain controller with active directory that can accept windows client pc's using ubuntu LTS 12.04 desktop edition. I need a full tutorial that show me step by step how could it be ...
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problems using evolution Contacts with an DavMail LDAP Proxy for an Exchange server

I have a DavMail proxy setup for accessing an Exchange 200x server. Email works fine in Thunderbird and Evolution (IMAP...) LDAP Contacts/Address Book works in TB, but not on Evolution. It seems ...
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Security hole in LDAP configuration of serverguide? [closed]

I'm just setting up a new openLDAP server for user authentification and stumbled over the access control statements in the serverguide. In especially: access to * by self write ... As the ...
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How to configure ubuntu ldap client to get password policies from server?

I have a ldap server on CentOS, 389-ds. I configured the client, ubuntu 12.04, to authenticate on that base and it works very well. But it don't gets the password policies from server. For example, if ...
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LDAP + LTSP 12.04

On ubuntu 12.04 i have some kind of problem with LTSP and LDAP. Sometimes I can log to the server, but sometimes I cant (window freezes on LDM) from thin client. Everything is ok when I log to the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 login screen with LDAP users, no “other…” [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I enable the “Other” user for login with Active Directory? We've upgraded recently to Ubuntu 12.04 desktop and have issue with the new login screen. ...
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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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