How do I authenticate against an external LDAP server? See the section on configuring LDAP in the user management section of the Administrator Manual.
How do I integrate Bright with multiple AD servers using SSSD capabilities? In the Knowledge Base article How Do I Integrate Bright With AD provider from SSSD?, the integration of a single AD...
How do I authenticate against Active Directory Using SAMBA/WINBIND? There are a lot of ways to do this. How Do I Integrate Bright With Active Directory using the native...
How do I authenticate against Active Directory using Centrify? Centrify aims at making integration of Linux and Mac OS X systems as easy as possible. It comes in several...
How Do I Integrate Bright With AD provider from SSSD? “Targeting best in class and possibly build ROI. Funneling user stories so that as an end result, we create a...
How can I extend the default LDAP schema? Such an extension should only be done if user management is no longer being done by Bright Cluster Manager, but,...
How do I configure Bright to authenticate against an external NIS server? The examples in this article assume: A Type 1 network. A Type 1 network is the networking layout where basically...
I would like to define the default shell assigned to new users that are created. How do I do this? Users are managed in an LDAP database, via an LDAP server. So modifying /etc/default/useradd, which governs system file default behavior,...
How do I restrict access of certain modules to specific users? I have software with limited licenses that I only want certain users to have access to. How do I make...
How do I define a password policy in LDAP? Changing the default password hash algorithm (Tested on RHEL6. For RHEL7 some steps may not be valid) passwd-hash configures one...
How can I migrate system users to LDAP? Please note that these steps won’t work on RockyLinux or CentOS8, because the migrationtools packagedoesn’t exist in their upstream repos....
How do I authenticate against Kerberos? This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may...
How do I change the OU in LDAP for Bright? This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may...
How do I integrate ldap-passwd-webui with Bright? What is ldap-passwd-webui? A simple tool, written entirely in Python. The original tool can be found at https://github.com/jirutka/ldap-passwd-webuiIt allows the end user...
How to remove or disable nslcd This article applies to Bright 8.2 and later releases If another authentication mechanism is to be used, SSSD for example,...
Optimizing and validating JupyterHub setup to support more user sessions The default configuration of Bright’s Jupyter integration supports up to 1000 users on a single login node as long as...
Integrating 3rd Party LDAP clients with bind credentials Bright Cluster Manager provides a managed LDAP database for user and group management but, by default, it is protected with...