[K12OSN] LDAP is for?

Josiah Ritchie jritchie at bible.edu
Tue Aug 10 13:12:56 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 09:00, Shawn Powers wrote:
> Huck said:
> > I just need Mac/XP/thin clients to all login via the K12LTSP and have
> > /home/<username> mapped to H:\
> 
> You sound like me, Huck, I need to have NIS because I have a bunch of
> servers splitting the load, but as of now do not *need* LDAP.  It's way up
> on my want list, but for this school year, NIS will do just fine.
> 
> The "magic tool" for me is pgina.xpasystems.com -- it allows me to
> authenticate users logging into windows from my linux box (PAM auth) so I
> don't need LDAP at all.  Again, I want it, but don't need it yet.

I've been getting pgina to work with LDAP and its nice. I added
phpldapadmin to allow other people to manage the user database from a
website and I'm pretty happy with how it came out. Now if only I could
figure out ACLs to lock it down just the way I want to.

JSR/





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