Red Hat Enterprise Directory Services and Authentication is an intensive course. It provides four days of instruction and labs on cross-platform integration of directory services to provide authentication or information service across the enterprise.RH423 is designed to train people with RHCE competency on skills required to manage and deploy directory services on and for Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. Gaining an understanding of the basic concepts, configuration, and management of LDAP-based services is central to this course. This course will discuss the Pluggable Authentication Modules system, (PAM) and how it is integrated with services that require authentication and authorization.The RHCE program provides fundamental skills and knowledge required by this course. Students will integrate standard network clients and services with the directory service in order to take advantage of its capabilites.