[K12OSN] Authenticating existing users with K12Linux

[Rob Owens]

Just did some more testing.  

nmap shows port 389 (ldap) open on SME Server whether or not it's acting as a domain controller.  

When configured as a domain controller, I was able to join the domain from a debian system with samba installed.  LDAP is properly configured (I think) on the debian system, but 'getent passwd' does not return any of the SME Server usernames.

-Rob

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:42:05AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> I just checked this in a virtual machine.  This is running, even without setting SME Server to act as a "Workgroup and Domain Controller":
> 
> /usr/sbin/slapd -4 -u ldap -d 0
> 
> This is version 7.4
> 
> -Rob
> 
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:22:02PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> > If you tell SME server to act as a domain controller (or whatever the web gui calls it), doesn't that use LDAP?
> > 
> > -Rob
> > 
> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 07:36:56AM +0900, Steve Towson wrote:
> > > Actually SME Server doesn't use LDAP for authentication by default, although
> > > you can turn it on - search the wiki for LDAP.  The hard part is getting the
> > > home folder automounted.
> > > 
> > > There's a wiki entry for authing Fed 7 against SME in the SME wiki (search
> > > for Fedora), but it uses Winbind rather than LDAP (and winbind is much
> > > trickier).   The stuff on mounting home folders is useful, however.
> > > 
> > > Let us know how you get on.
> > > 
> > > Steve
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >
> > > > SME Server uses LDAP for its user authentication (as far as I understand
> > > > it), so you should be able to authenticate K12Linux off of it.  However, I
> > > > set it up and tested it a couple weeks back and I couldn't get my Debian
> > > > machine to authenticate.  I'm not sure if I was doing something wrong, or if
> > > > SME's LDAP configuration is different than other OpenLDAP systems I've set
> > > > up in the past.
> > > >
> > > > -Rob
> > > >
> > > >
> > 
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