On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Digital Wokan wrote: > I've found howto's for setting up OpenLDAP, but nothing specific to > setting it up for handling login authentications (I noticed the option > during my last Mandrake install and would like to use it). > If someone could provide a good link for a step-by-step on setting it up > and switching the login mechanism over to using that instead of local > users/passwords, I'd be greatly appreciative.
I've never done it myself, but you should be able to edit /etc/nsswitch.conf, and look for the passwd, shadow and groups entries, then change those from the current order, (files ldap nisplus nis) to (ldap files ...) +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Craig Sprout | "Send lawyers, guns and money | | Billings, MT | to get me out of this. Quick!" | | http://www.mtsprouts.net | --Warren Zevon | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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