OpenLDAP authentication

[Todd O'Bryan]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Asmo Koskinen <asmo.koskinen at arkki.info> wrote:
> Todd O'Bryan kirjoitti:
>
>> Finally, today, I was able to id and su to a user in the LDAP database
>> who wasn't on the local machine. I'll write up my long, painful saga
>> and post it somewhere.
>>
>> Apparently, 9.10 doesn't bother to install any kind of basic LDAP
>> database when you install the packages, so someone will have to add
>> new code to get what I did on 9.04 to work on 9.10.
>
> Well, I'll try fresh/latest/greatest stable one source package tonight.
> Official guide is for same version (20091028).
>
> ftp://ftp.openldap.org/pub/OpenLDAP/openldap-stable/openldap-stable-20091028.tgz
>
> OpenLDAP Software 2.4 Administrator's Guide
> The OpenLDAP Project <http://www.openldap.org/>
> 28 October 2009
>
> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/
>
> There is too much problems with Ubuntu's own package - an example:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openldap/+bug/364531/comments/12
>
> Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.
>

I agree. It seems whoever is maintaining the slapd package has dropped
the ball pretty spectacularly, both with documentation and install
configuration. I tried last summer to learn enough about packaging
that I could be helpful in situations like this, but I didn't get very
far. And with school in session and me teaching six classes, I won't
have time to learn something new until winter break.

Todd