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

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Jan 9 19:31:26 UTC 2008


Craig White wrote:

>>> 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.
> ----
> perhaps you need to bugzilla an RFE

I guess I always expected 'Fedora Directory Server' to be part of Fedora 
and come set up to work.  Maybe I missed something obvious here...

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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