Linux Journal

Paranoid Penguin - Authenticate with LDAP, Part III

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 ...
Ars Technica

using ldap to authenticate cups users

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 ...
Ars Technica

Password sync from one directory to another? (LDAP to AD)

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 ...
Network World

Using your Active Directory for VPN authentication on ASA

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 ...
GIGAZINE

Okta announces that a flaw that allowed users to log in without a password if their username was 52 characters or longer had existed for three months

Okta, which operates a system that centrally manages user accounts such as IDs and passwords, has announced that a vulnerability that allows users to bypass password authentication if their username ...
Linux Journal

Paranoid Penguin - Authenticate with LDAP

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 ...