Lars Gunther wrote: > Hi all > > I am new to this list and need help setting up an authentication server > for an all Linux network. I previously used OpenLDAP, but think it is > very complicated to set up and use, so I am giving 389 a try. > > However, things are not going great... > > I am running a network where users should have access both through SSH > to the servrer and be able to log in on a local machine to a roaming > profile. /home is shared via NFS. > > Both the server and all clients are running Fedora 13. > > 389 is installed and running. I can query the server and using the admin > tools I was able to import an old account saved as LDIF. > > However, the following does not work: > > 1. The user I imported can not authenticate. I think that I need to set > up 389 to use encryption with ldaps (Fedora 13 does not allow > unencrypted passwords, which I used earlier since this net was > experimental, isolated and contains no sensitive information). > Not sure what you mean by "Fedora 13 does not allow unencrypted passwords" - do you mean "unencrypted BIND operations"? > 2. I can not import old posixGroups, nor can I create new ones. Trying > to import using LDIF, I get errors. Trying to create manually, I do not > see the option appear in the admin tool. > It would be helpful if you provided the errors, and more information about "the option appear in the admin tool". > I wish there was a guide that did provide exactly the steps I need to > set up my server and network. The manual is good, but frankly I do not > understand it well enough and lots of information is redundant to my needs. > > When I've gotten this to work, I intend to write such a guide! But > perhaps someone on this list could point me in the right direction...) > > BTW, please CC my Evernote account when you reply to this thread. > >
