[K12OSN] Linux Authentication

[David Trask]

Mark,

I'm not sure how you set up your Samba/LDAP box, but if you used the
smbldap-installer and/or my how-to included in the documentation....you
would simply set up another Linux workstation the exact same way you sould
set up a K12LTSP server to authenticate and grab the /home directory from
the server.  I'm going to assume you are exporting /home from the
Samba/LDAP server....if not...you can run the smbldap-installer script
again and answer yes to the NFS export stuff...OR....simply add a line
like the following into /etc/exports

(First make sure nfs is runnng)

/home   10.0.0.0/255.255.240.0(rw,sync)

(use your own IP addresses of course)   you can export to a specific
machine or a specific subnet(s)

then run 
exportfs -av   to export the files

Then....on the workstation side....run  "authconfig"  and use the
following:

The following pieces need to be selected (checked)

(*) Cache Information

(*) Use LDAP configure LDAP to show Server: 10.0.0.1  (use the IP of your
Samba/LDAP server)

                             Base DN: dc=vcs,dc=org (use your own values)

                                         *Note: Do not select Use TLS!

On the Authentication side (tab) you need to select:

(*) Use Shadow Passwords

(*) Use MD5 Passwords

(*) Enable LDAP and configure (just check should be all filled in) as above


You should also edit /etc/fstab to mount your /home dirctory at
startup....do this by adding a line like this (use own IP addresses) to
/etc/fstab  IP address is the IP of the server...

10.0.0.234:/home        /home                   nfs    
defaults,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0

then run 

mount -av  to mount everything in fstab

That's it!

mes4294 at lausd.k12.ca.us on Fri Sep 16 2005 at 15:32 +0000 wrote:
>Linux Authentication
>
>List,
>
>Please excuse me for my newbe question. I have a linux fedora core 3
>Samba-LDAP server running in my network environment as a PDC to my windows
>clients. I am setting up a few fedora core 3 workstations and would like
>for
>the linux workstations to authenticate via the PDC. 
>Can someone explain to me how to go about this or point me to the right
>direction?
>
>Thank you
>
>--mark



David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Coordinator
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
(207)923-3100