[K12OSN] Linux Authentication

[Mark Sarria]

Thanks for the tutorial, It is working fine know.

Thanks to you all once again.

--mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Trask" <dtrask at vcsvikings.org>
To: <mes4294 at lausd.k12.ca.us>
Cc: <K12OSN at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Linux Authentication


> 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
>
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