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How-To set up a LDAP server and its clients.

LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) allows central user, group, domain..... authentication, information storage ...

Using LDAP in a local network, you can allow your users to login and authenticate from anywhere on your network.

This tutorial will be split in 2 parts. In the first part, I will explain how-to install, configure the LDAP server, add a few users and group, in the second part, we will set up Linux client to authenticate through LDAP if the user does not exist on the local filesystem.

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