openLDAP

Remove Trailing Spaces Using Sed

January 12, 2018 by The Urban Penguin

Today we look at some really practical usage of sed, the Linux stream editor. Seeing how we can remove trailing spaces using sed and keep our openLDAP LDIF files clean. In our previous video, we saw how, if there were trailing spaces at a line ending in an LDIF file the attribute would be encoded. […]

OpenLDAP OUs

January 11, 2018 by The Urban Penguin

In the last post we looked at installing openLDAP on Ubuntu 16.04. We now move unto creating some structure in the tree and creating openLDAP OUs, or Organisational Units. Now that we have the example.com directory up and running we start to build on what we have. We need to create entries in the directory […]

OpenLDAP Install Ubuntu 16.04

January 10, 2018 by The Urban Penguin

In this lesson we look at an OpenLDAP install on Ubuntu 16.04 server. Installing OpenLDAP varies depending on the system that you use. Using Ubuntu, a little of the configuration of the directory is completed during the install whereby, the upper level or root container is created along with the Admin user for that directory. This […]

Installing the 389-ds LDAP Directory on CentOS 6.5

May 16, 2014 by The Urban Penguin

Installing and and using the openLDAP server is sometimes not the most simple of tasks; in order to simplify this Red Hat developed their IDM Directory Server which is at version 9.1 currently. This is available on CentOS and Fedora as the 389-ds and we will take a look at the preparation, installation and setup […]

Authenticating your Raspberry Pi users to openLDAP

November 28, 2013 by The Urban Penguin

It has been my experience that once you let one Pi into your life then you are just going to gain more; they are so useful, versatile and cheap. Managing user accounts they may become an issue. We have already seen how we can setup an openLDAP server on a Raspberry Pi device. Now we […]

Manage openLDAP users with VB Scripts

November 25, 2013 by The Urban Penguin

Yes Windows and Linux and co-exist! Here we look at using VBScript and ADSI to manage entries in our openLDAP SUSE Server. When Microsoft brought out their Active Directory with Windows 2000 they also developed the ADSI interface that we can use with VBScript to access LDAP object. The Active Directory is LDAP as is, […]