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In this guide let us see how to configure Linux clients to authenticate using OpenLDAP server. For the purpose of this tutorial, we will be using Debian 8 MATE desktop as LDAP client. My client system’s details: Operating system:  Debian 8 MATE desktop IP Address:  192.168.1.150/24 My LDAP Server’s details: Operating system:  Ubuntu 15.04 server IP Address:  192.168.1.100/24 Configure Linux Clients To Authenticate Using OpenLDAP Here, I am going to split this tutorial into two sections. First, we’ll see how to install LDAP client on Debian 8, and then we’ll see how to configure Debian 8 desktop to authenticate. 1. Install LDAP client I assume that you’ve had a working LDAP server already. If not, refer the above link to setup OpenLDAP server in Debian and Ubuntu and its derivatives. Now let us install the required packages in our LDAP client. Switch to root user: sudo su Or su Run the following command from your Terminal to install LDAP client p

About OpenLDAP OpenLDAP  is a free open source Light Weight Directory Access protocol developed by the OpenLDAP project. It is a platform independent protocol, so that it runs on all Linux/Unix like systems, Windows, AIX, Solaris and Android. OpenLDAP includes: slapd  – stand-alone LDAP daemon (server) libraries  implementing the LDAP protocol, and utilities, tools, and sample clients. In this tutorial, let us see how to install OpenLDAP and how to configure it in Ubuntu / Debian server. I tested this tutorial in Ubuntu 15.10, however this steps should work on Debian 7/8 and previous versions of Ubuntu, including Ubuntu 15.04/14.10/14.04 etc. Here is my testing system’s details: Operating System  : Ubuntu 15.10 64 bit server Hostname  : server.unixmen.local IP Address  : 192.168.1.103/24 First let us see how to install openLDAP. 1. Install OpenLDAP in Ubuntu 15.10 / Debian 8 Enter the following command in Terminal to install openldap. Switch to root user: su