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

[David Irving]

Nope.. Once in LDAP and everything is configured correctly on the linux
box, you don't have to do anything to passwd or shadow to let a user log
on to the box. I currently have this kind of setup using RHEL and it
works great!

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:fedora-directory-devel-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of T.J.
Yang
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 9:34 AM
To: fedora-directory-devel at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Fedora-directory-devel] Does FDS 7.1 support RFC2307 ?

>From: Keith Sharp <kms at passback.co.uk>
>Reply-To: kms at passback.co.uk,"Fedora Directory server developer 
>discussion." <fedora-directory-devel at redhat.com>
>To: fedora-directory-devel at redhat.com
>Subject: Re: [Fedora-directory-devel] Does FDS 7.1 support RFC2307 ?
>Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:15:43 +0100
>
>On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 07:11 -0500, T.J. Yang wrote:
>
> > 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 ?
>
>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.

>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.
>

I played with LDAP authentition a while back. I was quite happy I could
have
a ftp server(proftpd ?)  setup to use ldap auth.  I went on to pursure 
telnet
authentication.  after helps from others, I was able to setup a
RH9 box  to authenticate user from my corporate ldap account. but the
catch is before ldap user can login, I need to create that same ldap
account 
locally
in /etc/passwd file. This sort of beat the purpose of ldap auth.  I
havn't 
pursue
this for about two years, Is RHEL3/4 still require the inseration of
user 
entry
into /etc/passwd ?

My goal is to have configure a Unix box to allow telnet/ssh login from  
users
with a valid ldap account.Also I like to restrict the login access base
on a 
ldap user's group.

tj

>Support on other operating systems and libc implementations will vary,
>you should contact the vendors or appropriate support groups for those
>operating systems.
>
>Keith.
>
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