On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Prashanth Sundaram <psundaram at wgen.net> wrote: > It will take time to learn LDAP as it is a huge topic. Here's a book I would > recommend: LDAP System Administration by Gerald Carter(O'Reilly Publication) Yeah, no kidding - holy moly! I just ordered that book about 30 minutes ago actually because everyone keeps recommending it to me. > Google for "How to setup LDAP authentication" and there is ton of info. Too much :-) My first test was a failure - locked myself out of the system. Fortunately I'm playing in a VMWare sandbox so I just blew away the client OS and am reinstalling. We'll see where I get next time :-) > Again, setting up simple (basic) LDAP authentication is configuring > ldap.conf and nsswitch.conf . But it is not sufficient, you have to make > changes here and there to meet all your requirements I'll be happy if I can just get that simple thing going. We'll see where I get. > Virtual machine and SAN storage. You can set PAM Module to create homedir on > login and change to it.(authconfig --enablemkhomedir) > > http://www.mail-archive.com/seawolf-list at redhat.com/msg03331.html Nifty - thanks! -- ?Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV? - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"
