lists at scott-ackerman.com wrote: > I thought I was smart until I dove into LDAP. I am the sole part-time IT > Manager for a charter school (240 students, 20 staff, 60 computers) and > am migrating away from a Windows server environment to Linux. The only > services that are being provided by a Windows server now are AD, file > and print sharing services. Since we are turning about 15 of our student > computers into Linux stations, I decided on a "simpler" method of > managing authentication, login etc. and chose Fedora Directory Server > (after having beat my head against the wall with strictly OpenLDAP for a > month). I have successfully set up FDS and entered all students and > staff. I have decided not to sync against our AD server because we are > changing the student login method, the old format was locker number for > user name and then a password. I have decided to use the first.last name > for user name and then a password. > > I am trying to set up posix authentication and Samba and am having > difficulties with both, technical on the former and understanding on the > latter. First posix, I have followed the how to on the FDS Wiki, but > there seems to be some steps missing. I have gotten an authenticated > student logon, but only after having created an account on the local > machine with the same UID. I made sure that the password was different > in FDS than when I created the user on the local machine and I am able > to login to using either password which would indicate to me that I am > successfully authenticating to FDS. However I don't particularly care to > have to add 240 students on all 15 computers to make this work, not to > mention all of the "home" directories that will be mounted from the NFS > server. So the questions is, what steps am I missing here? > It sounds like you need to configure nss_ldap. Assuming you have nss_ldap installed on your client systems, you should be able to add "ldap" as a service for looking up users and groups in your /etc/nsswitch.conf file. -NGK > Samba. As I understand it, Windows will only authenticate against an NT > or "NT like (aka. Samba)" server, which means as far as I can tell that > either I have Samba sync against FDS or I use pGina on the Windows side > to authenticate directly against LDAP or scrap LDAP all together and > just use an NIS server (don't think this is a good idea, but it is a > possiblity). Of course trying to assess the pros and cons of either has > been somewhat difficult at best. Also the FDS Samba how-to doesn't cover > computer management which Samba is going to have to deal with as well. > > Before someone replies with a "RTFM", I have read the Install Guide as > well as the Red Hat Directory Server documentation and I am currently > half-way through the book "Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory > Services", so I have a reasonable understanding of how to get into > trouble. Of course none of these provide in-depth (nor should they) > information as to how to integrate with other services. I have spent a > month reading, tinkering etc., and I am not asking anyone else to do my > work for me, but I have seem to hit a wall and need a couple of > "breadcrumbs" to get me back on the trail. Thank you for your patience > and understanding. > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3241 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20070208/2cc96a6a/attachment.bin
