On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 09:30:41PM +0200, Juan Asensio Sánchez wrote: > Hi > > I have setup a server with LDAP and Samba. Now i want to LDAP hosts > authenticate with the LDAP server too, so i have installed in each > host libnss-ldap, libpam-ldap and nscd. Everything works fine, but I > don't know why these packages need the ldap admin password. Although > the ldap.secret file is not world readable, i don't want the users > could see it with sudo. And what would happen if i change the ldap > admin password? Do I have to change it in every host?
it is only used to simulate root access to accounts
can I also suggest looking at libnss-ldapd instead off libnss-ldap,
I have experienced some group resolution errors with the later,
especially with the recent move to gnutls away from openssl
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> NB: I have configured libnss-ldap without the needing of the
> passwords, but I couldn't configure libpam-ldap to not use it.
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> Thanks in advance.
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