Setting up a lightweight authentication back end

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Most self-hosted web services can authenticate against a back end server using LDAP or Kerberos . Hosting a server to handle authentication using these protocols can be a daunting task for the uninitiated. This guide explains how to configure Samba as a back end authentication server to allow each user to authenticate against multiple services with a single account. The authentication server will…

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