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Authenticating every user against a common central repository such as LDAP has many advantages, but it also presents some pitfalls. In this case the LDAP server would be a single point of failure, and it could also become a bottleneck in certain situations. For that reason, it is advisable for performance, as well as for fault tolerance reasons, to have two or more OpenLDAP servers.
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Vazquez, A. (2019). OpenLDAP Replication. In: Practical LPIC-3 300. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4473-9_5
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