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Practical Linux Security Cookbook

You're reading from   Practical Linux Security Cookbook Secure your Linux environment from modern-day attacks with practical recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138399
Length 482 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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 Kalsi Kalsi
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Contributors
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Preface
1. Linux Security Problem FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring a Secure and Optimized Kernel 3. Local Filesystem Security 4. Local Authentication in Linux 5. Remote Authentication 6. Network Security 7. Security Tools 8. Linux Security Distros 9. Bash Vulnerability Patching 10. Security Monitoring and Logging 11. Understanding Linux Service Security 12. Scanning and Auditing Linux 13. Vulnerability Scanning and Intrusion Detection 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Installing and configuring a basic LDAP server on Ubuntu


Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a protocol for managing access to a file and directory hierarchy from some centralized location. LDAP is mainly used for centralized authentication.

An LDAP server helps in controlling who has access to read and update information in the directory.

Getting ready

To install and configure LDAP, we need to first create an Ubuntu server. The current version for Ubuntu server installation media can be found here: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server.

After downloading, follow the steps provided to install an Ubuntu server.

We need a second system with a desktop version of Ubuntu installed. This will be used to access your LDAP server through a web interface.

Once this is done, we can proceed with the installation of LDAP.

How to do it...

We shall now start to install and configure LDAP on the Ubuntu server:

  1. We will first update the package list on the server from Ubuntu's repositories to get information...

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