Entries Related to ‘OpenLDAP’

A directory service stores information about users and other entities in a database that that you can use to simplify network management. Properly implemented, directory services such as OpenLDAP lessen the possibility of chaos and disorder on a large network.

LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) provides a standard way of accessing directories that can contain hierarchical information for anything from address books to authentication data. Here’s how you can get started with OpenLDAP, the open source implementation of LDAP, and create your own authorization server.

Last month saw the release of CentOS 6. The move from 5 to 6 establishes the foundation for this community-run enterprise Linux distribution for the next five years. CentOS brings a new kernel, new versions of key server components, and improved virtualization support.

If your organization hosts websites, chances are you’re using Apache, the world’s most popular web server. Apache has many advanced capabilities that administrators can implement. This article discusses how to integrate Apache with DAV (Distrubuted Authoring and Versioning) to create a file server, along with LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) to check your users’ profiles for permission to read or write files.

mod_python is more than just a CGI/WSGI alternative — you can use it not only to serve Python-based applications that run faster than traditional CGI, but you can actually use exposed Apache APIs to write full-blown Apache modules using the Python language. In this tutorial we’ll walk you through the process of creating a simple application using most of the features that mod_python delivers.