Re: Login in with LDAP

["Prashant K.S" <ksprashant@yahoo.com>]

If you have already created user and password entry
in the LDAP for the user,then you can simply do a
ldap_simple_bind_s(ld,username,userpassword),if this
call returns 0 then the user exists and password is
correct,otherwise authentication fails.One more thing
to do this,the password attribute should be named as
userpassword only,otherwise it will not work.

Suppose if you have not created the users,refer to the
slapd and slurpd Administrators Guide to see how to
transfer the user information to LDAP.

Prashanth

--- Jay Marcotte <jmarcotte@atipa.com> wrote:
> I am new to LDAP and I have been asked to move your
> linux machines from login in to NIS to login in to
> LDAP.
> 
> The problem that I am having is there is little
> documentation on how to do this.  How do I force my
> Linux box to log in to the LDAP server.
> 
> I am running the newest version of Openldap for
> linux.  The server is Debian and the client is
> RedHat.
> 
> I have installed the Pam_ldap and Nss_ldap RPMs on
> the RedHat box and I have edited the nsswitch.conf
> file, and the pam.conf file.
> 
> I have even installed the ldapconf module for
> linuxconf.  And have verified that I am pointing to
> the Server. and the Base.
> 
> I have set a password for the user in ldap.
> 
> Do I need anything else running?
> 
> Can I use NIS and LDAP until all clients are
> switched over to LDAP?
> 
> I read something about using ypbind with ldap is
> this true or possible?
> 
> Your help will be appreciated!!
> 
> 
> 
> 

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