I am new to using CentOS-DS and LDAP and I am having difficulty finding solid information on setting up using CentOS-DS as the information and authentification center of my network. I have googled a number of different combinations looking for the informaiton I need but have not found any good resources to setup what I am after. I have downloaded and am going over the Red Hat documentation and where it is very informative it certainly is not a Howto. My biggest need for resources is in setting up the authentification of different services and LDAP. I am using CentOS 5.3 and CentOS-DS 8.1. These I have installed and running on a test server. I would like to accomplish the following things in this order. Linux authentification Samba authentification Dovecot authentification So my questions to begin with are: How do I get Linux to use LDAP to authenticate instead of the passwd and shadow files? Once I get that to work: How do I get Linux to to do the normal things it does with adduser (like create a home directory, create a group, and things I can't think of)? If anyone could push me in the right direction I would really appreciate it.
