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We have already seen when talking about OpenLDAP that apart from authenticating against the local user database located at /etc/passwd, users could also authenticate against an OpenLDAP server. This has numerous advantages, as we can use a common centralized user repository, making user management much easier.
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Vazquez, A. (2019). Authentication, Authorization, and Winbind. In: Practical LPIC-3 300. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4473-9_14
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