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Re: Using LDAP to share users among Linuxes
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 04:12:02PM +0300, Tuomo Pyhala wrote:
>
> I was wondering how to use LDAP to share user accounts between linux
> boxes. Does that make even any sense, should i just setup NIS? I've
> understood that maybe some other software could also use data in directory
> (for example FireWall-1 supports it?).
>
> It seems like there would be open source components for all tasks, i need
> to download
>
> 1) OpenLDAP
> 2) nss-ldap module
> 3) pam-ldap module
Feel free to check out my PAM module :
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~pruyss/pam_LDAP
> 4) Migration scripts
>
> It seems that there are modules+migration scripts available at
> www.padl.com as well as at www.rage.net. Which one i should use? Does
> anyone know if i can implement anything like nis netgroups (mainly for
> grouping users reflecting organizational structure somewhat) when using
> these modules?
>
> How about security, as far as i understand the ldap-solution doesn't
> hide hashed password from users? How could i implement hiding?
>
> I also noticed that there are problems compiling OpenLDAP with glibc-2.1
> included in RH 6.0 (Has been discussed this list before, strdup defined
> as a macro which conflicts with definition in openldap 1.2.1 sources). Is
> there a patch, or can i use precompiled binaries from local redhat contrib
> mirror?
>
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