RE: ldap integration to standard unix utilities
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> From: Julien Motch [mailto:julienmotch@skynet.be]
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 5:50 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: ldap integration to standard unix utilities
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> Hi everybody,
>
> I have installed on a debian unstable an ldap server which acts as a
> directory server and all works fine (I can log from remoite host using
> ldap user db and use it with automount ot mount my remote
> home partitions).
>
> The next step in the configuration is to ad ldap support to standard
> unix utilities such as passwd and from ther nothing goes right.
>
> If I want to change lionel passwd for example (lionel is only present
> inthe ldap db), I receive the error message : 'passwd: Authentication
> service cannot retrieve authentication info'.
>
> Another strange fact is that when I log from another computer
> ( gentoo )
> all goes well and the passwd is changed.
>
> I have tried to move my gentoo's pam.d/* files to my debian server but
> the problem persists and anyway the two distro do not seem to have the
> same pam.d file (system-auth is not present in debian
> althought it is in
> gentoo and many docs on internet talk about its modification to enble
> ldap capabilities at standard unix utilitites.
>
> soif you know the response to my problemor you can direct me
> to 'debian
> ldap docs' ( not the standard doc, it does not work. Well
> I'll greatly
> appreciate.
>
> Thanks to All ,julien.
This page was mentioned on the list before, but check out
http://homex.subnet.at/~max/ldap/, Using OpenLDAP on Debian Woody to
server Linux and Samba users.
I don't know if it will help you with your specific problems with the
standard Unix utilities, but it is certainly a great place for more
Debian-centric LDAP information.
-Jason
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