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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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Auto creating accounts

I'm wondering if there is any way to configure Ubuntu or install special software which could allow to automatically create user account when user login first time (without any special privileges, ...
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How to use FreeRadius?

Could anybody tell me the steps to run and configure a FreeRadius on Ubuntu. I've installed it through Software center. Also let me whether lamp-server is required? I don't want to have a LDAP ...
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Where is the dc=example,dc=com ldap dit?

I am following the server guide for ubuntu 14.04 LTS and I am trying to setup ldap but I have a problem. There is supposed to be a dit named dc=example,dc=com but when I type ldapsearch -x -LLL -H ...
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How do I delete specific attributes in LDAP using ldap-utils command-line?

I'm trying to remove two attributes from LDAP user. Pseudo command: ldapdelete -D "uid=username,attribute1,attribute2" -w my_pass -h localhost How do I do that? Note: When searching I'm using the ...
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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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Simple NAS setup for Ubuntu

So, I want to connect my shiny new NAS (QNAP TS-210p II) to my Ubuntu 11.10 box. I have a 2nd Ubuntu machine, but I don't use that enough to be too worried about it. Use is ideally to offload all ...
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How can I login with my bash terminals running in interactive mode?

I am using a domain controller (oldap) to authenticate my hosts. It all works great except for the fact that my ldap users are initializing with non-interactive shells. I know the issue is not with ...
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Is there a simple tutorial for ldap? [closed]

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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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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What is the correct value for LDAPbinddn in Bugzilla LDAP integration?

I have a new Bugzilla installation, and trying to connect it to my LDAP server. Can't seem to make it work. What is the correct value of this field: LDAPbinddn should be? I am able to bind with ...
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ssh ldap AuthorizedKeysCommand

I have mounted an LDAP server, I generate certificates for my users and I wanted to store certificates in ldap (certificates itself, not their directories), I found the following scheme used to store ...
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PAM LDAP pam_ldap.so: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory

Im trying to get VSFTPD to work with LDAP using PAM. (since it does not sleep with SASL) If I login into FTP with a Shell credentails it works fine, but when I try to use an LDAP creds to login via ...
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Install LDAP on ubuntu 14.04

I'm trying to configure OpenLDAP on Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS and Clients (Ubuntu 14.04 and/or Linux Mint 17). It works with su command, ssh or in terminal but it doesn't work on login screen. Just ...
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Apache(2.4.7) LDAP URL authentication on ubuntu 14.04

The following LDAP URL authentication is NOT working for mediawiki on ubuntu 14.04 LTS server, which is working on ubuntu 9.10 server. cat /etc/apache2/sites-available/global.conf <Directory /...
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How can we connect the samba Domain server w/ LDAP backend from Ubuntu client?

I already Setup Samba Domain Controller with LDAP Backend in Ubuntu 12.04 / 13:04 See more at: http://www.unixmen.com/setup-samba-domain-controller-with-openldap-backend-in-ubuntu-13-04/#sthash....
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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( https://help.ubuntu.com/12.10/serverguide/openldap-server.html#openldap-...
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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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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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Ubuntu 10.04 LDAP Replication

Ubuntu 10.04 LDAP Replication - please help I was trying to setup LDAP Replication. But I put the wrong IP address in the consumer_sync.ldif file and now I am trying to fix it but I am getting the ...
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Migrate ldap to another server

I have ubuntu(8.10) ldap server running. I am migrating from my old servers to ubuntu 10.04.2 server and I have set up almost all freshly on the new servers. How could I perfectly migrate ldap to the ...
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Thunderbird 52.9.1 can not start on Ubuntu 14.04 with "GenerateDump cloned child" error

Just in the past few days, my thunderbird immediately crash and refuses to start on my Ubuntu 14.04 box (xfce, with LDAP). It gives the following error fangq@taote:~$ thunderbird ExceptionHandler::...
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18.04 cached LDAP passwords

Over the last week I have been working on getting the (Ubuntu 18.04) LDAP directory information cached locally to allow the use of roaming users(on Laptops). Getting the LDAP client setup correctly ...
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Connect Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop to LDAP Server [duplicate]

I use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS desktopand read and tested a lot of documentation about configuring an LDAP client on Ubuntu but can't get it to work. Is someone can share his experience and give me some good ...
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Authenticate Ubuntu users against a macOS Server OpenDirectory LDAP

My Objective: be able to login via ssh with any network user to Ubuntu 16.04 using the password from LDAP. The MacOS server "Sierra" has OpenDirectory, Groups and Users configured and I can use LDAP ...
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LDAPS not working: failed to bind to LDAP server (16.04)

LDAP works fine on my machine but LDAPS does not seem to work. Tried /etc/ldap.conf and /etc/ldap/ldap.conf with the Cert names to be specified with TLS_CACERTFILE & TLS_CACERT as mentioned in ...
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LDAP configuraton issue

I'm trying to set up login via LDAP and AD. I can do user ID and group lookups (id my_user). Problem is when I’m trying to login with an AD/LDAP account via SSH for example. From /var/log/auth.log: ...
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How to set "first name and last name" instead of uid at Ubuntu login using LDAP authentication

On Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop I would like to configure Ubuntu to login using authentication with Apache LDAP server. I have followed the following instructions (with minor modifications): How to configure ...
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Authentication vsftpd account using remote LDAP user

I'm trying to authenticate vsftpd from LDAP logins which hosted remotely another server . vsftpd hosted on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-48-generic x86_64) amazon aws . from the LDAP server ...
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Configuring NFS mount to use LDAP user id

My research group uses LDAP authentication for all the desktops. However, we've purchased a few laptops and would like to set them up so that they don't require LDAP authentication (so we can work ...
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Access Samba Share using Active Directory (LDAP)

I have Samba installed in our server and it is running fine. We have hundreds of folders in Samba share, and we use user.map to map list of users to specific folder in smb.share file. Since users are ...
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Can't authenticate against LDAP. /etc/nsswitch.conf seems to be ignored

Running ubuntu 14.0.4.1 on a BananaPi (ARM). I've had a lot of luck getting LDAP authentication to work under 14.0.4 on x86, but something about this just isn't working. If you run getent passwd | ...
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How to enforce LDAP group membership with libpam_ldap for SSHD

I am running 14.04 servers that I have install the ldap authentication package ldap-auth-client on and configured to connect to our LDAP servers. I have the authentication part working as well as the ...
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lubuntu completely ignoring ldap setup. Followed guide, no contact with ldap server

We have LDAP authentication working on every other server and lxc container in our enterprise, but when we try and have a brand spankin new Lubuntu 14.04 installation do the same, it's completely ...
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Remove LDAP users from Lightdm greeter user list

I have default user accounts which are local to my system and I want to show them in a user selection list. This is working. Recently, I've enabled logins with LDAP. The flow is selecting "Other..." ...
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LDAP Client change Unix and Samba password

I have to work in a mixed Windows/Linux world as far as desktop clients are concerned. I've got a central OpenLDAP server with Samba3 that serves a fake windows domain which keeps the Windows guys ...
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LDAP client against Windows 2003 server [closed]

I have followed this guide to get my Ubuntu 13.04 to authenticate users against Active Directory on a win2003-server. After a little trial, error and corrections, I no longer have any errors in auth....
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Can i change user account database graphically in ubuntu?

Is it possible to modify user account database graphically in Ubuntu as CentOs . Any Help because i think it could save time ?
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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 prevent Network Manager from auto creating network connection profiles with "available to everyone" by default

We have several laptops at work which use Ubuntu 11.10 64bit. I have our Wifi Access Point requiring WPA2-EAP Authentication (backed by a LDAP server). I have the staff using these laptops when ...
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Using phpLDAPadmin and configuring slapd [closed]

So, I've run through this guide here: https://help.ubuntu.com/11.04/serverguide/C/openldap-server.html to the point where I have pushed the backend and frontend directory. So now I have an admin ...
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How to setup a domain server for manage windows pc's & ubuntu pc's?

i like to manage windows pc's and ubuntu pc's.Can some one explain me on setting up a ubuntu domain server step by step configuration
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What's supposed to happen to NFSv4 mounts when Kerberos tickets expire? [closed]

I've got a bug report up on Launchpad describing this issue in detail. See here: Bug #794112 The gist is that I'm using LDAP and Kerberos to authenticate NFSv4 mounts on my clients according to a ...
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How do I assign an Address-book admin for OpenLDAP? [closed]

I'm new to OpenLDAP but through tutorials and documentation I have been able to setup a LDAP Addressbook where users can retrieve email addresses and mobile numbers with their email clients (...
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How can I setup LDAP client authentication?

I have set up an OpenLDAP server on Server 1 (running 10.04 desktop) per https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenLDAPServer and confirmed that it worked by using LDAP tools to query the LDAP directory. ...
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How do I get openldap password policy to work on 12.04 or 14.04?

I have installed the overlay, set up a default policy, I see in syslog that the policy is being referenced, but it does not seem to be enforced. Specifically, I have been testing out pwdMinLength of ...
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SSH allow windows AD groups(with Special charactors)

I have join my linux to windows domain succesfully, and now everyone in the domain is able to log in to the server by using ssh. But we only want to allow certain users from a group to log in. ...
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14.04 desktop ldap login

Quick question with 14.04, I cant get the prompt to allow LDAP logins, on the login screen. Before 14.04, I used to run: /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-set-defaults -m true which allows me to type in ...
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How to relaunch package configuration on libnss-ldap reinstallation

I've removed the file /etc/ldap.conf which was used by libnss-ldap. Later I wanted to restore it by completely removing the package with apt get remove libnss-ldap and installing it again. But ...
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Setting up a home network to support server applications

I'm trying to setup a home network using Linux (14.04) and would like to know what the process is called where you have a client machine (or several) connected to a server using the programs from the ...
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LDAP accounts not given same rights/permissions/policies as Local accounts

Just tried switching from Linux Mint to Ubuntu 18.10 but encountered numerous problems with accounts. All the steps to recreate are below in details. I would love to know how Ubuntu 18.10 ...
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