Re: LDAP user authentication?

  Hi Jon.

  Look i'm in your situation, searching for documents about
this
authentication stuff, i have follow this threat, i just want
to know
if u already have done this and what was your results.

  Thanks!!!

On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Jonathan Chen <joncchen.org.nz> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 05:45:33PM -0500, Darek M.
wrote:
>  > Jon Theil Nielsen wrote:
>  > >I have googled for a very long time, but I
haven't found any useful
>  > >howto on this issue. Well, there is
>  > >http://www.cul
tdeadsheep.org/FreeBSD/docs/Quick_and_dirty_FreeBSD_5_x_and_
nss_ldap_mini-HOWTO.html
>  > >but that seems to be a bit confusing an not
up-to-date. I guess it
>  > >_should_ be possible - and indeed very useful
(especially combinde
>  > >with Samba PDC and an easily maintainlable
mail server). So please, if
>  > >you have any experiences or knowledge of a
useful description..!
>  > >
>  > >Regards,
>  > >Jon Theil Nielsen
>  >
>  > At the risk of a thread-jack...
>  >
>  > how are home directories handled?  Will 'user'
have a home dir on the
>  > local system?  I suppose once LDAP is set up
properly, you can then
>  > create the home dir, then chown it 'user', with
'user' not being a local
>  > user and not in passwd/master.passwd files.  So
when you chown/chgrp,
>  > those commands go through pam/nss/ldap to
retrieve the proper id and
>  > name from the LDAP server?
>
>  There's security/pam_mkhomedir, which should do what
you want.
>
>
>  Cheers.
>  --
>  Jonathan Chen <joncchen.org.nz>
> 
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On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:34:59PM -0800, perikillo wrote:
>   Hi Jon.
> 
>   Look i'm in your situation, searching for documents
about this
> authentication stuff, i have follow this threat, i just
want to know
> if u already have done this and what was your results.

I've got LDAP auth set up, and it works fine for me; it's
been in
place since December 2007.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <joncchen.org.nz>
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