LDAP be killing me. I need a good step by step

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 12:51 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> >>
> >>> Now if you are referring to something other than address book 'clients',
> >>> then you will have to be more specific.
> >> I mean what you need if you check LDAP authentication in the system 
> >> authentication GUI or if you use it with samba as included in the 
> >> distribution.   Adding optional attributes and aliases to support the 
> >> other clients in the distribution would make sense too.  The question is 
> >> simply why doesn't the stuff included in the distribution come up 
> >> configured to match and working together?
> > ----
> > I suppose if Fedora saw itself as providing a turnkey distribution with
> > a notion towards a specific, pre-determined configuration that simply
> > worked out of the box, that would occur.
> 
> So no one expects anyone to have more than one fedora box and need them 
> to share network authentication?
> 
> >  i.e., isn't that what your
> > 'e-smith' distro (or whatever it is called) does?
> 
> I thought the point of using any packaged distribution was that its own 
> components would work together.  E-smith (now SME server) just does a 
> kickstart install and provides a web interface that does all your 
> config-file editing for you with a few concepts combined - mostly geared 
> towards being server for windows boxes. It does provide an ldap setup 
> suitable for an outlook address book, but it can't authenticate against 
> its own LDAP server let alone a different instance.
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perhaps you need to bugzilla an RFE

Craig