Hi Maslova, Thanks you for reporting the issue. I've created one JIRA for this issue: DIRKRB-679(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRKRB-679). You could apply the patch in the JIRA, the patch comments the LDAP dependency by default, you should remove the comment.
Thanks, Jiajia -----Original Message----- From: Maslova Polina [mailto:paulina-masl...@yandex.ru] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 4:32 PM To: kerby@directory.apache.org Subject: LDAP backend config Hello dear all! I failed to find how to configure LDAP backend in backend.conf (we use Apache DS). I have searched all the internet, but there is nothing about it. I tried to do it by myself, but also failed. Please help! dc_identity_backend = org.apache.kerby.kerberos.kdc.identitybackend.LdapIdentityBackend host=127.0.0.1 port=10389 admin_dn="uid=krbadmin,ou=users,dc=bigdata,dc=com" admin_pw=pass With this configuration I recieve the error sh bin/start-kdc.sh /etc/kerby/kerby-all-1.1.0/kerby-dist/kdc-dist/conf /etc/kerby/kerby-all-1.1.0/kerby-dist/kdc-dist Errors occurred when starting the kdc server: Failed to load backend class: org.apache.kerby.kerberos.kdc.identitybackend.LdapIdentityBackend when trying to start KDC/ Yours sincerely, Maslova Polina.