LDAP Authentication

[dpfear.4302739 at bloglines.com]

I found some good tutorials on this subject: there is a superb set of tutorials
on ldap and auth in pdf format at 

http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/presentations/history.php?year=all

and another excellent howto at http://linsec.ca/bin/view/Main/OpenLDAPAuth



HTH





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--- Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:

Hey,

> 

> I've posted a few questions on this topic over the last month
or so and I've

> managed to get an LDAP server up and running but I really
dont get alot of

> the tutorials and things around on using a LDAP directory
server to

> authenticate users on LAN worstations instead of using /etc/passwd.
Does

> anyone know of any good tutorials for complete LDAP newbies....as
in,

> absolute beginners; I have no knowledge of the protocol or how the
system

> works (well, i know that everything works on a tree-like structure
but thats

> about it).

> 

> While I'm here i might as well ask this too.
In the section of the

> slapd.conf file given below, what do I put for cn=?
Does it have to be the

> DNS name for the server? In that case would I only
have one cn= statement,

> as it is just a local hostname on a LAN (i.e. cn=hostname):

> 

> database bdb

> suffix "dc=example,dc=com"

> rootdn "cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com"

> rootpw secret

> directory /usr/local/var/openldap-data

> 

> Thanks,

> 

> 

> Ben Hodgson

> 

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