Several months ago I was setting up a FreeIPA instance for a client, and ran in to a requirement for synchronizing passwords between a legacy system and their new FreeIPA instance. To be clear, it was this legacy system which would be the authoritative source of the passwords, now, and …

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We are having some issues with our LDAP server dying. This is part of an IPA setup, and it seems slapd stops accepting connections after too many queries. To debug this, I constructed a Python script to repeatedly bind and unbind to the LDAP server. I used python-ldap to do …

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Today I was troubleshooting an issue with Apache and LDAP authentication via the OpenLDAP server. I had copied an existing configuration to a new system (Debian Etch to Ubuntu 10.04). Most everything was working (logins via PAM and LDAP, and the like). However, authentication via Apache’s LDAP BasicAuth …

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