On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 09:30:41PM +0200, Juan Asensio Sánchez wrote: > Hi > > I have setup a server with LDAP and Samba. Now i want to LDAP hosts > authenticate with the LDAP server too, so i have installed in each > host libnss-ldap, libpam-ldap and nscd. Everything works fine, but I > don't know why these packages need the ldap admin password. Although > the ldap.secret file is not world readable, i don't want the users > could see it with sudo. And what would happen if i change the ldap > admin password? Do I have to change it in every host? it is only used to simulate root access to accounts can I also suggest looking at libnss-ldapd instead off libnss-ldap, I have experienced some group resolution errors with the later, especially with the recent move to gnutls away from openssl > > NB: I have configured libnss-ldap without the needing of the > passwords, but I couldn't configure libpam-ldap to not use it. > > Thanks in advance. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- "I think --tide turning --see, as I remember --I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of --it's easy to see a tide turn --did I say those words?" - George W. Bush 06/14/2006 Washington, DC in response to the question "Is the tide turning in Iraq?"
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