2010-09-13 17:57, Rich Megginson skrev: > Not sure what you mean by "Fedora 13 does not allow unencrypted > passwords" - do you mean "unencrypted BIND operations"? When setting up authentication using the graphic tools (system-config-authentication) I must either specify ldaps or TLS (or use Kerberos which I think is overkill for my setup). ldaps seem to be the easiest option. >> 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". This LDIF could noyt be imported. It was generated as an export from OpenLDAP. dn: cn=test,ou=Group,dc=labbnet,dc=ne,dc=keryx,dc=se objectClass: posixGroup objectClass: top cn: gunther userPassword:: e2NyeXB0fXg= gidNumber: 600 Error Message: cn=test,ou=Group,dc=labbnet,dc=ne,dc=keryx,dc=se: Error adding object 'dn: cn=test,ou=Group,dc=labbnet,dc=ne,dc=keryx,dc=se'. The error sent by the server was 'No such object'. The object is: LDAPEntry: cn=test,ou=Group,dc=labbnet,dc=ne,dc=keryx,dc=se; LDAPAttributeSet: LDAPAttribute {type='gidnumber', values='600'} LDAPAttribute {type='userpassword', values='{crypt}x'} LDAPAttribute {type='objectclass', values='posixGroup,top' LDAPAttribute {type='cn', values='gunther'}.? This LDIF import succeded: dn: uid=test,ou=People,dc=labbnet,dc=ne,dc=keryx,dc=se userPassword:: xxx loginShell: /bin/bash gidNumber: 600 uidNumber: 600 shadowMax: 99999 objectClass: account objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: top objectClass: shadowAccount uid: gunther gecos: Testare shadowLastChange: 13313 >> BTW, please CC my Evernote account when you reply to this thread. This works great. Please continue to do that :-) -- Lars Gunther http://keryx.se/ http://twitter.com/itpastorn/ http://itpastorn.blogspot.com/