For the past couple of months in the Paranoid Penguin column, we've been building an LDAP server. We've installed OpenLDAP; configured slapd, the server dæmon; made TLS encryption work; and created ...

Deep dive comparison of SAML and LDAP for CTOs. Learn the differences in authentication, directory services, and how to scale Enterprise SSO.

We need to open up the cups web interface to a large number of local administrators to set up printers in cups. I have been googling and looking at the documentation for cups 1.3 (since that is what ...

I have a problem. At work we have several directories. A certain group of people have user accounts in our LDAP directory and now we are trying to set up some new stuff for them where they need to ...

For a long time the only way to use Active Directory (AD) for VPN authentication and authorization was to use a RADIUS server such as Cisco ACS that could use AD as an external database. With the ...

This article is loosely based on prototyping a number of J2EE applications constructs, such as servlets, EJB, MDB (Message-driven Beans) and JSP implemented using LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access ...

The latest LDAP protocol version, LDAPv3, is described in RFC 2251 and related RFCs. Another excellent reference is a book sometimes called the "LDAP bible". The book is titled Understanding and ...

Last month, we did some of the preliminary work in setting up an OpenLDAP server. We installed the base, server and, where applicable, client packages for OpenLDAP ...