[K12OSN] NEW HOWTO - Setup a Simple Application Server - PART V

[Shawn Powers]

Josiah Ritchie said:
> LDAP is a great backend for what you want to do, plus you can use pgina
> to authenticate your XP boxes to it so you'll have one authentication
> database for everything XP and Linux. It might also work for W2000, etc.

Ya know -- I REALLY wanted to implement LDAP this year, but it's still
above my comprehension.  *sigh*  Maybe I've been using /etc/passwd and
such for too many years.  NIS has worked great for me, (and the pgina_pam
application for windows authentication off the linux accounts) and I don't
understand how to actually administer the LDAP accounts...

Maybe next year.  This year, when I was trying to get LDAP working, I
*did* get authentication to work with the one or two accounts I
painstakingly added by hand -- but I just don't get how to add hundreds of
users to the LDAP database, and have everything (home directories created,
etc) just work.  Ironically, the samba integration part, for me, isn't the
big problem. :)

One of the wonderful things about OpenSource -- I don't HAVE to do either,
I have the choice. :)   (but boy do I ever want to get LDAP working -- for
the bonus addressbook if nothing else!)

-Shawn

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