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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.

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Settings LDAP Users Roles/Permissions at Application Level

I configured LDAP server on my Linux machine and create users/group accordingly as required. I have different groups like: admin/managers/executive/developers/users/clients. Now I have around 10 ...
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no LDAP in Libre Office 3.5 and 4.2

On a Kubuntu 12.04, I want to use an LDAP Server as Data-Source in LibreO, but i cannot find it in the list of possible connections. There is only: JDBC, OracleJDBC, Thunderbird/Icedove Address Book, ...
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OpenLDAP networking setup & structure

I'm going to be setting up LDAP on Ubuntu in the near future, and I have a few questions. First, let me start with our desired structure. We have an ActiveDirectory server and an Ubuntu server. We ...
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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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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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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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How to monitor Samba "LDAP" traffic?

I have Samba running as AD Domain Controller, I want to debug the LDAP connections coming to my Samba LDAP server. I tried to raise the log level, but still I see no useful information except the very ...
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SSH to ldap client hangs when ldap server is not reachable on ubuntu 20.04

I am using ubuntu 20.04 VM as ldap client and docker is my ldap server. When ldap server is not reachable ssh to ldap client vm gets hungs. Below are the auth logs Dec 18 07:02:40 tpvm22 sshd[24790]: ...
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OpenLDAP works but service doesn't start during boot

Couple of days ago, we've had to change LDAP Server to which our clients connect. We have no access to the server, only to the clients. So as soon we changed server in ldap.conf after reboot libnss-...
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How to default to encryption of new home directories when using ldap

When using adduser, one can pass --encrypt-home to encrypt the newly generated home directory. Supposedly, this can be made the default by correctly setting up /etc/adduser.conf. However, for ...
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openldap schema import error

I am trying to import schema in openldap which has been configured in ubuntu machine. I am trying with below command and getting below error. Can anyone help me on this. cd /tmp/openldapldif &&...
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Ubuntu 23.04 GUI won't allow LDAP Users to log in, CLI LDAP Works

Can someone help me to configure Open LDAP clients to log into Ubuntu 23.04 workstation via GUI, so far i can access and log in to the LDAP via CLI i have read a lot of articles regarding the ...
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How to connect to an ldap server via ldapsearch?

Used ldapsearch -x -b dc=domain,dc=com -H ldap://10.0.0.4 Issued To perform this operation, you must ensure successful connection binding., data 0, v3839 After diving into Google, I came across the ...
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Unable to link with the right version of libldap

I have a build machine where I have installed libldap-dev and the target host, I only have libldap. The versions are same Build: $ dpkg -l | grep libldap ii libldap-2.5-0:amd64 2.5.16+dfsg-...
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ldap_modify: Other (e.g., implementation specific) error (80)

I am trying to configure LDAPS with Let's Encrypt, but I am keep getting this error: ldap_modify: Other (e.g., implementation specific) error (80) I am using Ubuntu 22.04 Permissions on Certificates ...
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LDAP Account Manager file upload is not working

I have a problem with the file upload in the LDAP account manager. It just generates an empty webpage with not message at all. Before my I updated from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 it worked an either stated ...
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Is Certificates are required for STARTTLS connection on LDAP

My LDAP server's ldap.conf file # # LDAP Defaults # # See ldap.conf(5) for details # This file should be world readable but not world writable. BASE dc=coretesting,dc=com URI ldap://ldap....
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How can I authorize a connection between two Gitlab and Freeipa containers (LDAP)?

here's my problem. I have a Freeipa LDAP (centos-8-stream-4.9.8) instance and another Gitlab (16.0.2-ee.0) instance running locally in two separate containers. These instances were launched via a ...
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What are all the certificates mandatory to be provide while setting TLSVerifyClient option to demand?

In my case, I had set TLSVerifyClient to demand. I couldn't be able to establish a connection While providing TLSCACertificateFile alone. While setting the TLSVerifyClient option demand is it ...
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Ubuntu LDAP - does not work without connection to LDAP server?

I've configured LDAP on couple U20 virtual servers. Everything works when those servers have connection to LDAP Server but as soon as I disconnect them I cannot login anymore. Not even with root or ...
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Could not chdir to home directory

I have configured my machine with autofs to mount an LDAP users directory when they log in to a machine. I have created a directory in home called /guests. However when the LDAP user logs in, it isn't ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 name user add problem Bug #1927078

A problem occurred while upgrading the version of the Ubuntu system from 18.04 to 20.04. 18.04 user name For example, the user who was using 9128323 cannot log in in 20.04. (GUI only) 9128323 is a ...
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SSSD: Why do I have to use my previous windows password when I login to the server?

I have to change password every third (?) month and I can’t login with the one I currently use in windows but instead the one that I had before this one. [sssd] domains = (HIDDEN).local ...
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Ldap - access for specific machines

We have LDAP server with 300+ users-10 servers with different group. when we creating the users, every user has access of all the 10 servers. So I want to restrict the user access. So LDAP user or ...
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how can I show ldap account on lightdm xfce

I got another problem with ldap account on lightdm greeter. Lightdm greeter could not list ldap user. Therefore, After logging in with LDAP account, I restarted the computer, the LDAP account was not ...
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SSSD - Unable to Authenticate Against Google LDAP After 20.04 Upgrade - Could not start TLS encryption. unknown error

I'm trying to authenticate against Google LDAP (G Suite/Google Admin) to allow my clients to log in using their Google credentials. I have no visibility on the LDAP side of things I can only generate ...
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Nslcd:cannot open nsswitch.conf

When I try to run systemctl status nslcd An error in between the lines appear and it looks like this: cannot open /etc/nsswitch.conf: Permission denied I haven't change the permissions for neither of ...
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LDAP binding error

I have a secure LDAP configured on a Active Directory. I am trying to query it using the ldapsearch command on Ubuntu. Following are dummy details: Domain Name: dc=qwerty,dc=com LDAP Server: ...
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Open LDAP installation failed

I have tried this way. sudo apt-get install -y slapd But it is showing error. I am using Ubuntu 20.4.0.2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... ...
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Cannot open log file Xorg.pid

I encounter serious problem. When I am trying to login to my LDAP User, gdm doesn't start my user session and want me to log in again. I have connection to LDAP Server I can login to that account on ...
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Configure SSSD Package against Microsoft Patch (inforce LDAPS/tls)

I'm looking at altering some config of some Ubuntu machines that are using the SSSD package to bind to AD. As far as I understand, all ldap queries should be going through TSL from the config below. ...
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LDAP client cannot login on GDM

I am setting up my Ubuntu 19.04 desktop to work with an openldap server. I cannot login using GDM. I have added nscd and I have changed my set-up as follows: common-account:account [success=1 ...
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How to check my quota from terminal using LDAP

We are using a (synology) fileserver in combination with LDAP to host all the home directories for our users. Every user gets assigned a certain quota of how many GB he is allowed to use in his home ...
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"Failed to start session" on login

I have a machine (let's name it my-machine), which runs Ubuntu 16.04. my-machine is connected to LDAP, and I use an LDAP account to login to it. With my LDAP account, I use exclusively this machine. ...
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bind9-dyndb-ldap, BIND, named.conf: "cannot parse settings" during service start

I've installed LDAP, BIND9 and Bind9-dyndb-ldap on 18.04 server. Added the BIND schema to LDAP; added a zone and a few server dns entries to LDAP. Added the "dyndb" section to the named.conf, ...
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FreeIPA SSH Key authentication only

Basically what I want to do is disable password based login on client machines and only allow authentication via SSH Keys which are taken off our FreeIPA server. The SSH-KEY auth works fine, it's just ...
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Set centralised user home folders in LDAP Ubuntu

I have created couple of users on my ldap, and setup a couple of ubuntu ldap client machines, where users can login with their accounts. The problem is that if a user logins into two machines with his ...
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openldap & smbk5pwd

I have OpenLDAP setup (using the official OpenLDAP Server guide from ubuntu.com). I have added samba.schema and I have working samba authentication from LDAP. However, when a user changes password it ...
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Setting up SSH authentication on openLDAP server

I have setup an Ubuntu 16.04 openLDAP server and want to allow LDAP users to login locally with SSH (to commit to a repository etc.) with libnss and pam_ldap.so. Every time I login via ssh I get ...
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I installed smbldap-tools but can't find /usr/share/doc/smbldap-tools/examples

When I try to reinstall the smbldap-tools package the error says that it's impossible to find the source package.
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StartTLS fail with LDAP mechanism in saslauthd

I upgraded my mail server from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 and now StartTLS does not work anymore with LDAP mechanism in saslauthd. % sudo testsaslauthd -u clement -p bar 0: NO "authentication failed" ...
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sudo and login slow after LDAP server crashed

I'm working with 3 servers, 1 acting as an LDAP server and the other two connecting with clients. The LDAP server has crashed, and I'm able to log in to the other two with local accounts, but when ...
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Open LDAP (slapd) unable to add olcTLSCertificateFile and olcTLSCertificateKeyFile to cn=config

I'm trying to add TLS support to my OpenLDAP instance and according to countless articles i'm supposed to add the following (ldif): dn: cn=config add: oclTLSCACertificateFile olcTLSCACertificateFile: ...
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Login to Existing Windows Domain through Ubuntu

So following is my scenario. I have a domain network and only single machine with Ubuntu. All users are registered on this windows domain. I have no control over domain network it is maintained by ...
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SAMBA chown: invalid user:

I am trying to add users to a LDAP server using SAMBA. This is my list of users and user 'tester' was created using smbldap-useradd admin@server:/export/home$ sudo smbldap-userlist uid |username ...
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Ubuntu Landscape - LDAP authentification

We want to implement an LDAP authentication on our Landscape server. The landscape documentation says, that its possible but we didn't find any solution.
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Dependency and library problems with Ubuntu Server 16.04.2

I've just installed Ubuntu Server 16.04.2 LTS, without some installation packages like LAMP and LDAP. After the installation of the server I tried to install them manually with apt-get, but I'm ...
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Phpldapadmin not working with php

For some reason my phpldapadmin doesn't want to work with my website and it says "If you are seeing this in your browser, PHP is not installed on your web server!!!" Which is not true as if the info....
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Get LDAP to work without rebooting

I am trying to create an automatic/unattended install of Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop suing preseeding and puppet: Install with preseed, include puppet and start puppet on reboot, preseed also changes ...
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Why is my desktop suddenly using my home folder?

Installed gdm, using GNOME Classic. Also using LDAP for authentication and home folder designation. I realized my home folder was set to /home/users/ldapuser which is undesired behavior, because that ...
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