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RE: Etch and NSS with LDAP



Cool, thanks.  Guide looks pretty good!  =)

Appreciate it,
- GM

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Ewart [mailto:davee@sungate.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:33 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Etch and NSS with LDAP


On Wednesday, 04.10.2006 at 10:23 -0400, Grok Mogger wrote:

> Hey, thanks for your help.  I'm still not totally clear on one thing
> though.
>
> I am trying to set up a new Debian etch box.  I want to handle
> authentication (yes, for ssh) via LDAP instead of the regular
> /etc/passwd and shadow files.  I am under the impression that I cannot
> do that without the libnss-ldap package.  Am I right about that?  I've
> never set this up before, so I'm not sure.

You need libpam-ldap too.  There is a reasonably good HOWTO guide at
http://www.moduli.net/pages/sarge-ldap-auth-howto - take a look there.

Basically, the NSS package allows the local system to tie up local UID
and GID with the right 'real' users in LDAP; the PAM package handles the
authentication side of things.

Dave.
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