Re: LDAP - account ID and passwords

[Markus Schabel <markus.schabel@tgm.ac.at>]

Chakravarthy Cuddapah wrote:
> Hello
>
> Newbie question. I setup my LDAP server (on RHL 8) just to list email 
> addresses for outlook. I want to restrict access to the server. Right 
> now anyone can connect from outlook. How can I set up so that users must 
> specify a account id and password to browse entries. Appreciate any help.

You have to specify useraccounts with passwords in LDAP and write
access-lists for them in your slapd.conf

regards
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