Re: LDAP on Redhat.

2003-05-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
James Pifer wrote: Is the LDAP-Howto the right howto for this? http://www.ofb.net/~jheiss/krbldap/howto.html http://www.bayour.com/LDAPv3-HOWTO.html I belive that someone on this list wrote another set of documentation on the subject that I failed to bookmark. Perhaps he'll speak up later :)

Re: LDAP on Redhat.

2003-05-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
James Pifer wrote: If there are no local user accounts, how do you specify who is "allowed" access? You can use and LDAP filter to allow only accounts with specific attributes, or use an application-specific filter (like PAM's access.conf, or ssh's key-only logins). -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: LDAP on Redhat.

2003-05-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
James Pifer wrote: So the user would have an account on the linux machine. When they try to login, redhat would look to ldap to check authentication? The password file wouldn't contain account info, but the user would need his shell and home directory to exist for most services to function corre

Re: LDAP on Redhat.

2003-05-30 Thread Aly Dharshi
Note that the different way will be based on /etc/nsswitch.conf which I assume that authconfig will modify anyway, it seems to be the case on Solaris 9. A. Sopicki wrote: Hi, James! If there are no local user accounts, how do you specify who is "allowed" access? Is the LDAP-Howto the right how

Re: LDAP on Redhat.

2003-05-30 Thread A. Sopicki
Hi, James! > If there are no local user accounts, how do you specify who is "allowed" > access? Is the LDAP-Howto the right howto for this? Your accounts are stored in LDAP. If your system is using ldap it will search the ldaptree for an entry for the given username and match your password with

RE: LDAP on Redhat.

2003-05-30 Thread fluke
On 29 May 2003, James Pifer wrote: > If there are no local user accounts, how do you specify who is "allowed" > access? Is the LDAP-Howto the right howto for this? Set pam_groupdn in /etc/ldap.conf to a group defined in LDAP that get to access that specific machine. -- redhat-list mailing lis

RE: LDAP on Redhat.

2003-05-30 Thread James Pifer
auths against a NT PDC. > > -Original Message- > From: James Pifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 10:38 AM > To: RedHat List > Subject: RE: LDAP on Redhat. > > > So the user would have an account on the linux machine. When they t

RE: LDAP on Redhat.

2003-05-30 Thread Jason Staudenmayer
There would be no local accounts. All user info is in the LDAP database. The samba auths against a NT PDC. -Original Message- From: James Pifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 10:38 AM To: RedHat List Subject: RE: LDAP on Redhat. So the user would have an account

RE: LDAP on Redhat.

2003-05-30 Thread James Pifer
So the user would have an account on the linux machine. When they try to login, redhat would look to ldap to check authentication? If so, that sounds pretty good, but what about other modules, such as Samba? Since it uses smbpasswd, it would probably not use LDAP. Is that correct? Thanks, James

RE: LDAP on Redhat.

2003-05-30 Thread Jason Staudenmayer
I believe it would auth users against said LDAP server and not the passwd/shadow files -Original Message- From: James Pifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 10:07 AM To: RedHat List Subject: LDAP on Redhat. When you're given the option during the Redhat install to