concrete uses of LDAP?

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Published on 2010-04-06T20:02:15Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 20:03 UTC
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im new to LDAP.

i wonder what are some concrete examples of using LDAP.

things that are MUCH more easier to do when you got 3-7 linux computers in a small company network.

one use that is very important for me seems to be that you configure LDAP to handle system authentication. then you dont have to create same accounts in all computers.

are there other things that are a MUST DO for a small network to save more time?

my small network is for apache servers and database servers.

and should LDAP be in an own machine? cause i guess its not good to put it in apache or database servers since these are performance dependent.

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