To control access to various internal Web sites of a company, a simple method is to enable LDAP authentication on the Web server, so that the company directory can be brought to bear and there is no need to create individual accounts for employees on different systems.

Nginx is one …

Sentry is a fairly popular service for tracking exceptions and errors in production softwares. They also provides a docker recipe for people who want to self host their own sentry server. This post shows how to enable LDAP authentication for such a self hosted sentry server, using freeIPA as the …

The point of setting up freeIPA for an intranet is to enable single-sign-on (SSO) for all the internal services that requires authentication and authorization. LDAP, originated from my alma mater University of Michigan, is one of the most widely accepted solutions to the problem. freeIPA can serve as a LDAP …