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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