Re: LDAP admin password configuring libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap
It is needed for actions where local user is root, so local root
could, if necessary change users passwords in LDAP.
If that is not desirable, you do not have to use it. You can put same
name/password that you have put for ordinary lookups.
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Juan Asensio Sánchez <okelet@gmail.com> 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?
>
> 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.
>
>
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