Two key open source solutions got new versions recently, and Emmett's here to point out the highlights of each. Mainstay open source solutions Samba and OpenLDAP were both updated recently, helping ...

Many readers have used our December 2002 article, “OpenLDAP Everywhere”, to achieve unified login company-wide. Since then, OpenLDAP and Linux have progressed. Here, we demonstrate the use of OpenLDAP ...

Anyone care to venture on this? I use both the latter but keep hearing every now and again some very interesting things that can be done with LDAP. For example, having samba authenticate against ...

Howard Chu is the Chief Architect of the OpenLDAP project and its main corporate sponsor Symas Corporation. OpenLDAP is a free, open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ...

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the use of OpenLDAP as the core directory service for a heterogeneous environment. The LDAP server provides a shared e-mail directory, a unified login for ...