Gregory's ServerLDAP for Rocket Scientists is a great source of information about LDAP Schemas, ObjectClasses, Attributes, DITs and stuff.
https://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/
and with this blog series it seems I'm covered for the basics:
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@kris It's not that bad I would say, but yep, initial setup and learning curve is steep and experience is ovewhelming. It's a very flexible db and it's supported by a lot (really a lot) of services. It can be used as a user/groups provider for keycloak, so it's relatively easy to setup OpenIDC, SAML on top of it. The flexibility and unopinionated defaults is what makes it hard to grasp I guess. Many services support OpenIDC and SAML, but not all of them, so it will be hard to avoid LDAP.  @abcdw Hi, with my upcoming Guile-PAM you can write your LDAP queries in GNU Guile. https://codeberg.org/lechner/guile-pam |
@abcdw Everytime i've looked at LDAP for any personal/friend setups i'm instantly overwhelmed. Is this really a technology we want to save? What alternatives have you considered?