Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-05-23 Thread Fredrik Steen
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 03:17:17PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: | On Tuesday 22 May 2001 11:58, Fredrik Steen wrote: | Hi I'm trying to get a 12-node cluster to use LDAP as authentication. | But I have ran into trouble. Importing of the users worked fine now | I'm trying to import the groups

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-05-23 Thread Fredrik Steen
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 03:17:17PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: | On Tuesday 22 May 2001 11:58, Fredrik Steen wrote: | Hi I'm trying to get a 12-node cluster to use LDAP as authentication. | But I have ran into trouble. Importing of the users worked fine now | I'm trying to import the groups

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-05-22 Thread Fredrik Steen
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 05:19:27PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: | On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 04:52:54AM -0700, Simon Tennant wrote: | I wrote a howto about 6 months back. It was tricky setting up but I think | I cover most of the potential disaster areas in my howto. | |

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-05-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 11:58, Fredrik Steen wrote: Hi I'm trying to get a 12-node cluster to use LDAP as authentication. But I have ran into trouble. Importing of the users worked fine now I'm trying to import the groups using the migration tools from padl.com. Here is what I get. $ ldapadd

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-05-20 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 04:52:54AM -0700, Simon Tennant wrote: I wrote a howto about 6 months back. It was tricky setting up but I think I cover most of the potential disaster areas in my howto. http://www.imaginator.com/~simon/ldap/ After successfully setting up ldap

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-05-20 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 04:52:54AM -0700, Simon Tennant wrote: I wrote a howto about 6 months back. It was tricky setting up but I think I cover most of the potential disaster areas in my howto. http://www.imaginator.com/~simon/ldap/ After successfully setting up ldap

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-05-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 05 May 2001 06:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since we're on the subject of LDAP, one thing I hate about LDAP, and it may be just my ignorance, is this: I'm use to using PH for mail routing. Within PH, for the user record, you can add many aliases for them, which sendmail happily

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-05-06 Thread tps
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 11:22:09AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: On Saturday 05 May 2001 06:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since we're on the subject of LDAP, one thing I hate about LDAP, and it may be just my ignorance, is this: I'm use to using PH for mail routing. Within PH, for the user

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-05-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 06 May 2001 16:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When using LDAP for email aliases you have multi-valued attributes for both the incoming address and the delivery address. This allows you to have one user with multiple email addresses, an alias expansion to multiple users, or a

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-05-06 Thread hugues obolonsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 11:22:09AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: On Saturday 05 May 2001 06:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since we're on the subject of LDAP, one thing I hate about LDAP, and it may be just my ignorance, is this: I'm use to using PH for mail

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-05-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 05 May 2001 06:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since we're on the subject of LDAP, one thing I hate about LDAP, and it may be just my ignorance, is this: I'm use to using PH for mail routing. Within PH, for the user record, you can add many aliases for them, which sendmail happily

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-05-06 Thread tps
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 11:22:09AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: On Saturday 05 May 2001 06:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since we're on the subject of LDAP, one thing I hate about LDAP, and it may be just my ignorance, is this: I'm use to using PH for mail routing. Within PH, for the user

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-05-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 06 May 2001 16:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When using LDAP for email aliases you have multi-valued attributes for both the incoming address and the delivery address. This allows you to have one user with multiple email addresses, an alias expansion to multiple users, or a

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-05-05 Thread tps
Since we're on the subject of LDAP, one thing I hate about LDAP, and it may be just my ignorance, is this: I'm use to using PH for mail routing. Within PH, for the user record, you can add many aliases for them, which sendmail happily uses. I can't figure out how to do this with LDAP! Does

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-05-04 Thread Marek L. Kozak
"Jeremy L. Gaddis" wrote: Out of curiousity, has anyone come across a sort of "LDAP authentication howto for Debian?" Today, I found two more HOWTOs devoted to LDAP. They' re probably not Debian specyfic (haven't read them yet). They can be found probably on

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-05-04 Thread tps
Since we're on the subject of LDAP, one thing I hate about LDAP, and it may be just my ignorance, is this: I'm use to using PH for mail routing. Within PH, for the user record, you can add many aliases for them, which sendmail happily uses. I can't figure out how to do this with LDAP! Does

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-05-04 Thread Marek L. Kozak
Jeremy L. Gaddis wrote: Out of curiousity, has anyone come across a sort of LDAP authentication howto for Debian? Today, I found two more HOWTOs devoted to LDAP. They' re probably not Debian specyfic (haven't read them yet). They can be found probably on every sunsite mirror, but these come

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-30 Thread Jeremy L. Gaddis
At 4/29/01 02:53 PM, you wrote: I recently configured LDAP for my company and I 100% agree with the original poster. Documentation is thick but with a lot of holes, few explanations (so you can do things in a different way), and quite difficult to find. [snip] In my case, I'm quite familiar

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Stephane Bortzmeyer The most important problem, I believe, is that using LDAP means understanding many differents things and how they fit together. These things are often documented properly (setting a LDAP server...) but separately (setting LDAP clients is in a completely

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-30 Thread Alexander Reelsen
Hi On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:21:20AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Stephane Bortzmeyer XML.. *runningaway* Okay, I'm convinced. I think the best way of going about it would be to take the LDP's two LDAP documents (LDAP HOWTO LDAP Authentication HOWTO), add some very practical Debian

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-30 Thread Pascal Pucci
Okay, I'm convinced. I think the best way of going about it would be to take the LDP's two LDAP documents (LDAP HOWTO LDAP Authentication HOWTO), add some very practical Debian guidelines (preferably as note points so other distribution users can add their directions) and combining them

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Alexander Reelsen quote who=Stephane Bortzmeyer XML.. *runningaway* SGML as it turns out. Does that make it un-buzzwordy enough? ;) Now let's not duplicate work. Pascal Pucci only needs to translate his document from french to English instead of writing it. So, perhaps wait

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-30 Thread Jeremy L. Gaddis
At 4/29/01 02:53 PM, you wrote: I recently configured LDAP for my company and I 100% agree with the original poster. Documentation is thick but with a lot of holes, few explanations (so you can do things in a different way), and quite difficult to find. [snip] In my case, I'm quite familiar

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Stephane Bortzmeyer The most important problem, I believe, is that using LDAP means understanding many differents things and how they fit together. These things are often documented properly (setting a LDAP server...) but separately (setting LDAP clients is in a completely different

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-30 Thread Alexander Reelsen
Hi On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:21:20AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Stephane Bortzmeyer XML.. *runningaway* Okay, I'm convinced. I think the best way of going about it would be to take the LDP's two LDAP documents (LDAP HOWTO LDAP Authentication HOWTO), add some very practical Debian

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-30 Thread Pascal Pucci
Okay, I'm convinced. I think the best way of going about it would be to take the LDP's two LDAP documents (LDAP HOWTO LDAP Authentication HOWTO), add some very practical Debian guidelines (preferably as note points so other distribution users can add their directions) and combining them

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Alexander Reelsen quote who=Stephane Bortzmeyer XML.. *runningaway* SGML as it turns out. Does that make it un-buzzwordy enough? ;) Now let's not duplicate work. Pascal Pucci only needs to translate his document from french to English instead of writing it. So, perhaps wait

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-29 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Sami Haahtinen the biggest case imho is understanding LDAP, LDIF and the permissions in the database.. then it's just a matter of adding the correct objectclass and filling in the blanks.. Indeed - best place to learn about this is in the book, Understanding and Deploying LDAP

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-29 Thread Simon Tennant
I wrote a howto about 6 months back. It was tricky setting up but I think I cover most of the potential disaster areas in my howto. http://www.imaginator.com/~simon/ldap/ S. Jeremy L. Gaddis wrote: Out of curiousity, has anyone come across a sort of LDAP authentication

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-29 Thread Sami Haahtinen
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 04:52:54AM -0700, Simon Tennant wrote: I wrote a howto about 6 months back. It was tricky setting up but I think I cover most of the potential disaster areas in my howto. http://www.imaginator.com/~simon/ldap/ S. i recommend you add description about

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-29 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 12:34:02PM +1000, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 21 lines which said: The LDP has a perfectly good set of documents already; there's no need to duplicate the good work already done by them. I recently configured LDAP for my company and I 100% agree

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-29 Thread Sami Haahtinen
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 12:34:02PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Jeremy L. Gaddis Out of curiousity, has anyone come across a sort of LDAP authentication howto for Debian? The LDP has a perfectly good set of documents already; there's no need to duplicate the good work already done

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-29 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Sami Haahtinen the biggest case imho is understanding LDAP, LDIF and the permissions in the database.. then it's just a matter of adding the correct objectclass and filling in the blanks.. Indeed - best place to learn about this is in the book, Understanding and Deploying LDAP

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-29 Thread Pascal Pucci
Out of curiousity, has anyone come across a sort of LDAP authentication howto for Debian? I've been pondering the idea of using a central LDAP database for authentication for awhile now, but I'm sort of lost after installing the necessary PAM stuff. Thanks. I have made a LDAP

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-29 Thread Simon Tennant
I wrote a howto about 6 months back. It was tricky setting up but I think I cover most of the potential disaster areas in my howto. http://www.imaginator.com/~simon/ldap/ S. Jeremy L. Gaddis wrote: Out of curiousity, has anyone come across a sort of LDAP authentication

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-29 Thread Sami Haahtinen
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 04:52:54AM -0700, Simon Tennant wrote: I wrote a howto about 6 months back. It was tricky setting up but I think I cover most of the potential disaster areas in my howto. http://www.imaginator.com/~simon/ldap/ S. i recommend you add description about

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-29 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 12:34:02PM +1000, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 21 lines which said: The LDP has a perfectly good set of documents already; there's no need to duplicate the good work already done by them. I recently configured LDAP for my company and I 100% agree

An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-28 Thread Jeremy L. Gaddis
Out of curiousity, has anyone come across a sort of LDAP authentication howto for Debian? I've been pondering the idea of using a central LDAP database for authentication for awhile now, but I'm sort of lost after installing the necessary PAM stuff. Thanks. -jg -- Jeremy L. Gaddis [EMAIL

An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-28 Thread Jeremy L. Gaddis
Out of curiousity, has anyone come across a sort of LDAP authentication howto for Debian? I've been pondering the idea of using a central LDAP database for authentication for awhile now, but I'm sort of lost after installing the necessary PAM stuff. Thanks. -jg -- Jeremy L. Gaddis [EMAIL

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Jeremy L. Gaddis Out of curiousity, has anyone come across a sort of LDAP authentication howto for Debian? The LDP has a perfectly good set of documents already; there's no need to duplicate the good work already done by them. A Debian-specific section may be of use, however there's