This guide will walk you through setting up Debian Stretch to use an LDAP directory server for authentication. I am assuming you have a directory server up and running. If you don’t, you can follow these two guides to install and configure OpenLDAP: Install OpenLDAP From Source – Debian Stretch Configure OpenLDAP Install Packages First,… Read More »
This guide will walk you through setting up an OpenLDAP server for authenticating and managing users on Linux and UNIX. I am assuming you already have the OpenLDAP server installed and running with no backends configured. I recommend installing OpenLDAP from source, but this guide should work if you installed from a repository. I have… Read More »
Changing a lost root password in Linux is not terribly difficult. If you have access to sudo, then it is very easy. If not, then it is a little more involved, but is fairly straight forward. This guide covers systemd based distributions, which is most modern distributions. I have tested it on CentOS 7, Debian… Read More »
Setting up passwordless SSH is a simple two step process. This guide will walk you through doing it with OpenSSH and PuTTY. Although PuTTY is available for UNIX like operating systems, I am going to assume you are using it on a Windows computer. Here are the two steps: Create a private key on the… Read More »
This how-to assumes basic familiarity with the Linux distribution of choice and basic IPv4 networking. It assumes the operating system is installed. Steps for (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) RHEL 7 based, RHEL 6 based, and Debian based distributions are included. If there are requests for other distributions, post a comment or use the contact page.… Read More »