I use nss_ldap and pam-ldap a lot; these two combined replace (actually, they coexist with) the standard /etc/passwd and /etc/groups transparently.

Yes, slightly vague topic, so I'll do the background thing first.I'm going to be setting up an LDAP directory at a small company. The primary purpose is to centralize user management for the *NIX ...

Description: Allows an LDAP directory to be used to store the database for HTTP Basic authentication. During the authentication phase, mod_authnz_ldap searches for an entry in the directory that ...

LDAP can occupy numerous places in an IT infrastructure. For example, you can migrate Network Information Services (NIS) to LDAP and many Legacy UNIX centric organization have done just that. While ...

Enabling LDAP signing on the server and client machines is essential to ensuring that the attacker doesn’t use a forged LDAP client to change server configuration and data.

Thanks to a new cloud identity service from Google, Google LDAP login on macOS and iOS could become reality in the near future.