Re: How to auth in a ldap server

[Benedict Verheyen <benedict.verheyen@sjki.be>]

Michael S wrote:
> Leonardo Marques wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > How i do to a machine running GNU/Linux auth in other machine, running
> > GNU/Linux too, on the ldap server?
> >
> > Thanks for attention,
> >
> > []s
>
> I couldn't understand you question exactly, but I guess you mean:
>
> "How can I set up accounts on a linux machine A which authenticate their 
> users against an ldap directoy server running on a machine B."
>
> I haven't done this by myself but I guess it works like that:
>
> 1) Setting up OpenLDAP server with debian package 'slapd' on machine B.
> 2) Make LDAP entries of type 'posixAccount'
> 2) Download and install 'libpam-ldap' on machine A and configure it 
> properly
>
> Maybe start with reading 'man 7 pam' after installing 'libpam-runtime' 
> somewhere.
>
> Michael

http://aqua.subnet.at/~max/ldap/#intro is a pretty complete tutorial 
regarding LDAP.

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