- In this video,
I'm going to explain about LDAP.
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
or LDAP
is a generic solution
to store important information centrally.
And LDAP is often used for authentication,
but other types of information can be stored
in LDAP as well.
In fact, LDAP has an origin
as a phone dictionary
so you can sort anything in LDAP.
Even if it's convenient
to contact LDAP server on port 389,
it's not secure
because passwords are not encrypted at all.
So if you really want to create it,
better configure for security.
To make it real secure,
Kerberos tickets are commonly used.
And that's because Kerberos tickets
are a safer way to deal
with sensitive values like passwords.
And to enhance LDAP with Kerberos functionality,
Free IPA is a common solution.
In the next video, you'll learn how to set up FreeIPA.