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Troubleshooting an LDAP Installation

Understanding a service well enough to troubleshoot it is an important skill as a System Administrator. In this lab, we'll go over troubleshooting an LDAP installation.

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Level

Intermediate

Duration

15m

Last updated

Sep 02, 2025

Challenge

Set the system up so that 'ldapuser3' can log in over ssh.

authconfig --updateall --enableldap --enableldapauth

Challenge

Change the password for 'ldapuser3'.

ldappasswd -H ldap://localhost -x \ 
-D "cn=ldapadm,dc=example,dc=com" -W \ 
-S "uid=ldapuser3,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com"

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