[Fedora-directory-users] Re: fds + kerberos

[Howard Chu]

> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:15:49 +0200
> From: Jan Frode Myklebust<janfrode at tanso.net>

> I have fds set up for user management, and have kerberos set
> up for authentication, but am a bit uncertain if I'm now finished,
> or if fds+kerberos are supposed to be better integrated.
>
> Is the normal procedure for managing users:
>
> 	- add user info to the directory (ldapadd)
> 	- create user principal (addprinc username)
>
> Or can the creation of user principal be automatically created
> from within fds when we create users there ?

If you're using Heimdal's KDC there is a much less clumsy solution - just 
configure your KDC to store its information in LDAP. Then you can include the 
KDC-specific attributes in your lddapadd requests, and manage both sets of 
users solely through LDAP. This works very well with OpenLDAP; I think it 
should also work with FDS 1.1 now that they've integrated ldapi:// support 
(but haven't tried it myself). You can then also configure OpenLDAP to 
automatically synchronize password changes between LDAP and Kerberos (since 
all the information is in the LDAP entry).

I believe recent versions of MIT Kerberos also offer this possibility, but I 
haven't heard of any success stories with it so far.
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