On Tuesday 09 March 2004 02:40 pm, linuxadm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > ldap is definatly an area where i have as little exptertise possible, but > its looking like that is going to change sooner than later. I'm not knowledgeable enough yet to help you with all of your questions, but two resources that helped me figure out how to set up ldap authorization on our network were Aileen Frisch's Essential System Administration and the Official Red Hat Linux Administrator's Guide (which I believe is part of the documentation that came with RH9). > what i would like to accomplish at the office is to have a redhat box > authenticate passwords against an ldap server on the network, instead of > thru the local shadow file. is this possible? Yes. The redhat-config-authentication tool will give you a nice interface to set ldap authentication. > im hoping to get a little > insight as to where i need to head with this before i spend a lot of time > and maybe spin a lot of wheels on this project. > > ultimatly, what i want to end up with is an FTP server that will > authenticate based on our pre-existing ldap database, thus extending all > our single sign-on capabilities were growing here at the office. for > instance, create a user, but instead of setting a passwd on the box, the > user attempts a login and the server checks against our ldap server.. > yadda yadda blabity blah. > > is this possible?? > > thanks, > jonathan -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
