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Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun is a school located in South Wales, UK with over 900 pupils. As network manager and IT teacher at the school, with very little spare time, I am constantly interrupted by pupils who have forgotten their password and require it to be reset. I had been looking for some time for a tool which would allow me to delegate the task of resetting passwords to other teachers. The result of...

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Introduction

In many networks environment, Linux servers are integrated in the Active Directory network. For most Linux distributions, an LDAP implementation is available: OpenLDAP. OpenLDAP is an Open Source implementation of LDAP. On Linux, OpenLDAP is used to setup a directory service for different applications and implementations of for instance

  • Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
  • Linux Name Service Switch (NSS)
  • Samba
  • FTP/HTTP
  • FreeRadius

Such applications can be LDAP enabled using OpenLDAP. The UMRA LDAP actions can be used to manage the OpenLDAP directory service in order to create, manage, delete, edit and search directory service items.

Depending on the package and compilation, OpenLDAP supports SSL. In this case, the LDAP communication between the LDAP Client (UMRA) and the LDAP Server (Linux OpenLDAP) is secure using SSL.

In this document, the following Linux and OpenLDAP environment is used:

  • Debiun GNU/Linux 3.1 (kernel 2.4.27-2-386)
  • OpenLDAP, version 2.2.23-8

This section on Linux OpenLDAP includes the following sections:

  • Setting up a secure Linux OpenLDAP environment
  • Example project to create directory service items

See Also

Linux OpenLDAP

Secure Linux OpenLDAP environment

Creating directory service items with OpenLDAP on Linux