Supposingly you have already configured a special Physical or Virtual Machine with CentOS 7 Linux with some fqdn Preparing the Freshly installed Server OS hostname to become host of LDAPįirst, include hostname of LDAP Server and Client to /etc/hosts Lets proceed and setupall necessery components. On a first glimse nothing complex, but if you dig into its administration suddenly you start becoming lost in a true ocean of complex. There is much to be said about LDAP but the main thing to know is LDAP is simply a tree Database where you can store various Objects and assign them values. By having LDAP the administrator a single person could easily, create new Users for employees across company infrastructure without bothering to login physically on each and every host on lets say the existing 3000+ servers. The other added value of storing user base in LDAP is the Account and Infrastructure centralization which becomes so vital with the time as a company grows.
Having an LDAP database is longly used in corporate world to store accounts and various sensitive data, information, phonebooks, personal user data and login credentials for various Web systems used to administer or use Local Company infrastructure.
The usage and storage of users inside LDAP usually when you have a great number of UNIX user accounts already created on the system or you want to be able to authenticate a single set of SSH UNIX / Samba / Kerberos / Email / Windows / Courier / NIS users with the same account credentials across mutliple servers.
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In this article you will learn how to install and configure LDAP on CentOS 7.9 Linux with standard packages and later on create a sample user to be read from LDAP as well as how to configure SSH login to not only query local stored users under /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow but how to store user credentials and passwords inside LDAP.
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