Distinguished Names (DNs) are one of the least-understood LDAP server components. Get an introduction to them, and see how a virtual directory can help with DN management. Windows Server System (WSS) ...

Spring LDAP is a Spring-based framework that simplifies LDAP programming on the Java platform. In this step-by-step guide to using Spring LDAP you will learn how the framework handles the low-level ...

LDAP signing is an authentication method in Windows Server that can improve the security of a directory server. Once enabled, it will reject any request that doesn’t ask for signing or if the request ...

The Fedora Project’s 389 Directory Server, an advanced and complete open source LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server, can satisfy every corporate demand for an alternative to popular ...

I'm looking to build a new LDAP directory/address book/authentication system here at work, and I'm trying to gather up some good resources. It'll probably be running on RHEL/AS. I'm familiar with ...

Sometimes you don’t know who your neighbors really are. I live in Sunnyvale, Calif., near some of the companies I write about. Unbeknown to me – or, at least, unremarked by me – one of the most ...

Suppose you have an Internet Mail Access Protocol (IMAP) server and a bunch of users, but you don't want to give each user a shell account on the server. You'd rather use some sort of central ...

Tech Tip: Set a search base for a successful LDAP query Your email has been sent Outlook 2000 and 2002 provide support for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP ...

In most enterprise networks today, centralized authentication is a basic security paradigm. In the Linux realm, OpenLDAP has been king of the hill for many years, but for those unfamiliar with the ...

Recently, I walked you through the process of deploying OpenLDAP server on Ubuntu Server 22.04. Following that guide, you should also have access to the user-friendly LDAP Account Manager (LAM), which ...