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Building an authentication server with OpenLDAP - Linux Tutorial
From the course: LPIC-2 Linux Engineer (202-450) Cert Prep
Building an authentication server with OpenLDAP
- If you need a centralized user account database for Linux, OpenLDAP may just fit the bill, stay tuned. - [Announcer] You're watching ITProTV. (uplifting techno music) Welcome back, I'm your host, Sophie, and I'm here with Don from more LPIC. And today we begin our, I guess, journey into OpenLDAP. So can you kind of give us an overview of what we're going to talk about in this episode? - Sure, we're going to have several episodes on OpenLDAP, but in this one we're going to focus on getting an OpenLDAP server built up. So we'll start with a little overview of what it is, we'll go through the process of getting it installed and talk about some of the challenges we run into when it comes to managing OpenLDAP. But by the end of the episode, we will have an OpenLDAP server up and running. - So for starters, what is OpenLDAP and why would we want to use it? - All right, well, OpenLDAP, well let's just start with the name, right? So Open, it's an open source project, so this is something…
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