[Fedora-directory-devel] Does FDS 7.1 support RFC2307 ?

[Rich Megginson]

Keith Sharp wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 07:11 -0500, T.J. Yang wrote:
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>>Reading RFC 2307 Section 5.1 and 5.2 but it is still vague for me.
>>Which OS and which software module has  Secction 5.2 functions implemented ?
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>I have done a degree of NIS replacement (passwd, group and automount
>entries) using the Fedora Core Linux operating system as both the client
>and the server.  The LDAP server I used was OpenLDAP.
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>The functions in section 5.2 are normally implemented in the standard
>libc library.  On Fedora Core that is glibc, and the implementation uses
>the files /etc/nsswitch.conf to determine which directory to use to
>lookup information: files, NIS, LDAP, etc.  For authentication you may
>also need to configure the PAM system to use LDAP.  Fedora Core provides
>a utility called system-config-authentication that has a simple GUI for
>configuring these systems.
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>Support on other operating systems and libc implementations will vary,
>you should contact the vendors or appropriate support groups for those
>operating systems.
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The other tricky thing is determining what level of RFC 2307 support the 
OS has - the old 2307, the 2307 without the automount information, and 
the new 2307bis with the public key and automount information.  We 
should try to put together a matrix of OS and server support for this.

>Keith.
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