Business computer networks employ the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP, to distribute lists of information organized into hierarchies. To access a network's LDAP services, your computer ...
A new security hole has been found in OS X Lion where usernames can be authenticated without providing a password on systems bound to LDAP servers. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac ...
This article is loosely based on prototyping a number of J2EE applications constructs, such as servlets, EJB, MDB (Message-driven Beans) and JSP implemented using LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access ...
Okta, which operates a system that centrally manages user accounts such as IDs and passwords, has announced that a vulnerability that allows users to bypass password authentication if their username ...
As an organization adds applications and services, centralizing authentication and password services can increase security and decrease administrative and developer headaches. However, consolidating ...
LDAP signing is an authentication method in Windows Server that can improve the security of a directory server. Once enabled, it will reject any request that doesn’t ask for signing or if the request ...
As systems get larger and the number of users they support increases, it becomes more difficult to manage systems using only the old-fashioned UNIX /etc/passwd file. A common solution to this problem ...