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Directory Service Kerberos LDAP Linux

Joining Ubuntu client to Active Directory

…or to be exact: the Samba version of it 🙂 So as an Open Source guy I obviously don’t run a Microsoft Active Directory. However since Samba version 4 this software does not only support file and print services, it also can act as an Active Directory. And guess what: That’s what I do. Unfortunately […]

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Apache Directory Service LDAP Webserver

Apache authentication with Active Directory (no proxy account required)

While playing around with Apache web server authentication I was wondering: Is it possible to authenticate Apache against LDAP without requiring a proxy account to do the queries? At first glance this seems to require an LDAP server that allows anonymous bind and read access, however there’s another way: If a regular user (of the […]