<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>RE: [389-users] OK, so how do I use this thing?</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Alan, I've got a sandbox set up and finally have the centos-ds server installed and I seem to be able to add users at least. I've been looking at these docs : <a href="http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/">http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/</a> The install guide got me that far. Then my next logical step was "OK, how do I use this now to authenticate LInux users?" So I just went through the Admin Guide - but nada. Nothing. Negatory. Take a look at documentation here: <a href="http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation">http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation</a> To authenticate linux users, you will have to configure you client hosts to ldap server by configuring /etc/ldap.conf Which can be done using GUI/cmdline via authconfig-tui/authconfig --help Looking at the table of contents for the deployment guide, it does not look to be of any help either. Look at Administration Guide <a href="http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/8.1/admin/index.html">http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/8.1/admin/index.html</a> So what do I have to read to learn how to set up my Linux boxes to authenticate from here? Read Above Do they need local accounts too? Local accounts are needed for root and other service accounts Local disks? Not sure what this means What about website? Wikis? All currently using htpasswd. How do I convert those? For websites, you can refer to Apache authentication via LDAP thanks, -Alan -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" </BODY> </HTML>