By: Daniel Kranich user 06 Jun 2017 at 1:44 a.m. CDT

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Hello, I have a set of CentOS 7 servers that are set up with the ability to authenticate to an LDAP server. Is it possible to use the Gluu server as the method for authenticating UNIX users? I am trying to find the best way to unify my companies login system so that a user can have the same username/password for both UNIX logins and their company OAuth2 logins for our email service etc. I know that Gluu can authenticate using an existing LDAP server, however I was hoping to be able to use Gluu to set up users and reset passwords etc, rather than having to build my own User Management GUI for my backend LDAP server. So I guess overall, is there a way to authenticate UNIX users using ONLY Gluu and its built in LDAP schema? (Apologies. I am just getting my feet wet with LDAP and enterprise scale user authentication systems, so apologies if this is a dumb question)

By Mohib Zico staff 06 Jun 2017 at 3:35 a.m. CDT

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Hi Daniel, Gluu Server is basically for web based and mobile authentication.

By Daniel Kranich user 06 Jun 2017 at 5:09 a.m. CDT

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So you have no way to extend that to UNIX authentication without using a separate LDAP server?

By Mohib Zico staff 06 Jun 2017 at 5:44 a.m. CDT

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Most probably no, at least I haven't tried. I think you can try kerberos.