It may be old and not particularly appealing, but LDAP has been serving that role effectively at many companies.[0] Using a terminal remains standard practice

It may be old and not particularly appealing, but LDAP has been serving that role effectively at many companies.[0] Using a terminal remains standard practice for sysadmins and devops.[1] I believe there's some confusion in both the article and the comment between authentication and authorization. LDAP is fully equipped to handle both tasks. [0]https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/system-level_authentication_guide/ldap_servers https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp... [1]https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-configure.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-co...