From the course: Linux System Engineer: Authentication with LDAP and Kerberos
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LDAP overview
From the course: Linux System Engineer: Authentication with LDAP and Kerberos
LDAP overview
- [Instructor] Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP, provides a centralized information storage accessed over the network that could contain information such as user authentication, email messaging, and calendar services. LDAP is platform independent and runs on most operating systems. It is also an important component of commercial stacks such as Microsoft's Active Directory and Red Hat's Directory Server. It is difficult to maintain user authentication on many hosts. Directories like LDAP allow a centralized information storage for this purpose. LDAP uses a client/server arrangement to allow clients to connect to the LDAP server over the network and retrieve information about users and access control. If a client tries changing information, it verifies the person is authorized to do so. Communication between the client and server is done via a TLS cryptographically encrypted tunnel for security. The LDAP service supports multiple back-end databases. Concerning directory…
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