[plug] LDAP

[Simon Scott]

Id be interested in this as well. I found very few beginner's resources for
it, and basically learned from installing openldap and phpldapadmin, and then
battling through installing pam_ldap etc. Its one of those technologies where
after a while the zen of it just 'clicks' :)

It definitely worthwhile, but the main problem Ive found is that most of the
ldap administration tools are not task specific (ie, there's no ldap user
admin tool AFAIK) so you end up editing accounts etc through a generic editor.

My local lan now authenticates pretty much everything via ldap, including
samba, pam, proftpd, phpgroupware, courier-imap etc. The fact that there are
only 2 users is of secondary importance :)

Just remember not to shift your root account into LDAP and make sure your
nsswitch is set to use files as well as LDAP. If anything goes wrong with the
LDAP server, you can still login to fix it :)

Let me know how you go!


Chris Griffin (griffinster at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> Greetings folks,
>
> Could someone please point me at something in the line of "LDAP for Dummies"?
> I would like to get to know it a little more.
>
> Kind regards,
> Chris Griffin
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