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Author: Joe
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Subject: Re: Linux Administration - Users in (any) databasehowto/why...
Craig,

Thanks for the info on FreeIPA. It sounds like you have quite a bit of
experience with LDAP. Maybe you can answer some questions.

In the past when I tried to configure LDAP with nsswitch, I remember
that I had to put the Admin credentials in a file in /etc. Also, at the
time ldap did not support ssl ( it was a long time ago :-) )

Can LDAP be used on client systems now where the credentials are secure?
I didn't like the idea of having basically the root password in
cleartext on every system. The same goes for using ldap to authenticate
to an apache server. I would like to try again, but last time I spent
weeks on getting it configured and found it easy to basically own the
ldap server.

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