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LPIC-3 Mixed Environments

Domain 2Objective 1

391.1 LDAP Integration with PAM and NSS (weight: 2) LPIC-3-MIXED-ENVIRONMENTS Practice Questions (Page 4)

Part of the Topic 391: OpenLDAP as an Authentication Backend domain, which makes up ~10% of our current practice bank. Linux Professional Institute does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~4–6 in this domain), expect 2–3 from this objective — we provide 26 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

26questions here
6free pages
7concepts

Questions 16–20

  1. 16application · medium

    A user can authenticate via LDAP but cannot log in because the system reports 'No passwd entry for user'. The LDAP server is reachable and the user's password is correct. Which component is most likely failing?

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  2. 17foundation · easy

    In /etc/nsswitch.conf, which database entry controls how group membership information is resolved?

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  3. 18application · medium

    A company wants to centralize user authentication and account information using LDAP. The administrator has configured both PAM and NSS to use LDAP. Which additional configuration is required to ensure that LDAP users can log in via the graphical display manager (GDM)?

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  4. 19application · medium

    An administrator has configured NSS to use LDAP for user lookups. When running 'getent group', LDAP groups are returned, but when running 'getent passwd', LDAP users are not returned. Which line in /etc/nsswitch.conf is most likely misconfigured?

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  5. 20foundation · easy

    Which PAM module type is responsible for verifying that the user is permitted to access the requested service at the current time, such as checking account expiration or access hours?

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