[K12OSN] Authenticating existing users with K12Linux

[JG]

Thanks for the help guys!

As far as I can tell the built-in LDAP in SME doesn't really authenticate 
but there is an beta LDAP install that adds the extra functionality. I 
hopefully will get the K12Linux up and running this week and try it out. 
I'll use the suggested http://wiki.contribs.org/Fedora7 for reference.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Owens" <rowens at ptd.net>
To: "Support list for open source software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Authenticating existing users with K12Linux


> 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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