Known Human Nick Rusnov wrote:
Hi.
I'm going to be running a moderately sized network, and I was wondering how
difficult it would be to setup ldap as teh authentication for it?
That's exactly what I tried today to set up, but I didn't get it really
to work yet. But try to install slapd (openldapd) and try to get the
authentication done with libpam-ldap in adition to the
passwd-authentication.
The idea behind the pam-stuff is that the authentication works
transparently, so you have not to change anything, just configure pam
right. But I don't now how far this goes. I think some more work is to
be done, like make that exim will get the correct users for mail
delivery, and I don't think that adduser, passwd ... will just work on
ldap. Does anyone know more about this?
One more thing: in the testing distribution there isn't yet the openldap
version 2.x. If you need ldap-v3 support, you'll need v2.x, maybe it is
in unstable?
Good luck,
Tibor