Directory services is one of the most interesting and crucial parts of computing today. They provide our account management, basic authentication, address books and a back-end repository for the ...

Information inside an LDAP directory is stored in "entries". Each entry is a collection of attributes that have a globally unique Distinguished Name (DN), which contain a type and one or more values.

I have inherited a small LAN with a mix of Windows desktops and Linux workstations. Currently, the users have two user accounts that are completely separate, and they use a shared folder on the NAS to ...