Cool....nothing like an explanation of why not to do things. Of course lacking any documentation at all....I'm left with experimentation. regards Steven Jones Senior Linux/Unix/San/Vmware System Administrator APG -Technology Integration Team Victoria University of Wellington Phone: +64 4 463 6272 -----Original Message----- From: fedora-directory-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-directory-users-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Howard Chu Sent: Friday, 14 September 2007 3:12 p.m. To: fedora-directory-users at redhat.com Subject: re: Debian client to FDS howto > Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:45:01 +1200 > From: "Steven Jones" <Steven.Jones at vuw.ac.nz> > I have written the below, if it is helpful/correct by all means place it > on FDS wiki. > > > Debian client setup > > Important notes > > There would seem to be at least 2 places (if not three) containing > information for ldap. In order to make Debian 4 work I have deleted 2 > and sym linked. It is possible on patching Debian that these files maybe > restored and LDAP authentication will no longer work. Never symlink the pam/nss_ldap config files with the OpenLDAP libldap config file. There's a reason all of these things are in separate config files - they each have distinct syntaxes. You don't know what you're doing, and you have no guarantees that any particular version of a given library won't barf all over the keywords it doesn't recognize. > There may well be an official method to setup Debian but I have not been > able to locate one via Google. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ -- Fedora-directory-users mailing list Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users
