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Configure the system to use LDAP user and group accounts

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Configure the system to use LDAP user and group accounts

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- [Instructor] By default, Linux keeps information about user accounts and groups stored locally. For example, user accounts are defined in the Etc password file. The name can be a bit misleading because it seems like it stores password data, but it's just data about user accounts. So if we run Cat Etc password, we can spot a line like this, which shows us information about the username, the user's id, which is 1000, the user's home directory, and the user's preferred shell, which is Bin Bash. The problem is, in today's world, we usually have to manage hundreds of servers and keeping track of what user accounts and groups exist on each system can be a hassle. Even with automation tools like Chef, Ansible, or Puppet. Especially if we constantly need to create new user accounts, remove unused users, define new groups, and so on. So there's an easier way to do this. For example, let's say a new member joins our team and we need to create a dedicated user account for this member on 200…

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