smbldap installer on FC9

[Robert Moskowitz]

Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 21:27 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>   
>> Craig White wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 16:04 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> There is a nice smbldap install script over at: http://majen.net/smbldap/
>>>>
>>>> Thing is it is for FC5/4, Ubuntu, and K12LTSP 5/4.4.1....
>>>>
>>>> I want to run it on FC9 and I am not adept at scripts.
>>>>
>>>> I did find the 'yum install' line in distro_data.pm for the rpms needed 
>>>> for FC5, so I ran that and either the rpm was already installed or it 
>>>> was installed.  I did not get any errors about an rpm not existing.
>>>>
>>>> So now I want to give this script a run.  Of course it won't work out 
>>>> the gate, as I don't have the proper distro.
>>>>
>>>> Is any able to help me update this?  Or know of a newer/better script?
>>>>     
>>>>         
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>>> am I missing something? It's in the standard repos.
>>>
>>> yum install smbldap-tools
>>>
>>> definitely there for F10 and I would expect for F9 too.
>>>       
>> Hi Craig,
>>
>> smbldap-tools is only part of it.  According to the script I need gcc as 
>> well, and a few others.
>>
>>
>> Well I got that, but the script looks at your OS and doesn't want to run 
>> on FC9,or so it seems....
>>     
> ----
> makes sense...I remember when David Trask was pounding the samba list
> with a million questions and all I could think of was here was an
> attempt to build a turnkey LDAP setup that operated from only a
> particular view whose opinions I didn't wholeheartedly endorse so it's
> not surprising to find that it has languished and broken in so short of
> a time.
>   

That is really sad.  And I did not think it was too bad.  Maybe I really 
never worked with it enough.

> My recommendation is that if you are looking for an opinionated turnkey
> LDAP authentication system, you use Windows Active Directory.
>   

How do I do that in FC9?
> The alternative is to actually learn how LDAP works and then you can do
> anything you want with it.

Like the aformentioned developer?