[Fedora-directory-devel] Why I am here ?

[Rich Megginson]

Firstly - welcome!

T.J. Yang wrote:

> To help and learn LDAP.
>
> To Help: create FDS 7.1 rpm,pkgadd and hp depot packages.

Excellent.  We definitely need better native package support.

> To Lean:  I heard it is possible to create a pure ldap authentication 
> environment. ie
>                  any vaild user in a ldap server  can login into a 
> RH/Solaris box without adding an user
>                  entry in local /etc/passwd file.
> I was able to configure proftpd use ldap authentication, and wondering 
> why not sshd or telnetd ?

If PAM supports it, it should work.

> My last attempt ended with ldap guru saying it  is on ldap server 
> side(it need to support a RFCxxxx).
> The goal is to escape NIS authentication and go to a ldap unix 
> environment.

Was it RFC 2307?  This is the RFC that describes how LDAP can be used to 
replace NIS - the schema to support NIS clients.

>
> T.J. Yang
>
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