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Managing Datacenters and the Cloud
- Deploying OpenLDAP and SSSD
OpenLDAP (http://www.openldap.org/) is an open source directory server widely used for account management. It is easy to setup and administrate. There are also some Webfrontends like http://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/ and https://www.ldap-account-manager.org/lamcms/. SSSD (https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/) is the acronym for System Security Services Daemon. With its help it is possible to to authenticate your linux users against an OpenLDAP directory server with some nifty additions like offline support.