Re: RE : how to generate passwords?

[Adam Williams6 <awilliam@whitemice.org>]

>ewww....  I don't have months....
>not good.......  <sigh>

It took me nine months (back in the 1.x days).  Eighteen months before 
everything (sendmail, Samba, etc...) was ldap-ified.  But the 
documentation is MUCH better now (it exists).  Takes about seven minutes 
to set one up now.

Recent Red Hats have a program "authconfig" that does all the PAM work for 
you.

I have explanantions of the Migration scripts and example slapd.conf files 
in my LDAP presentation (ftp://kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/ldapv3.pdf).

And check your file permissions.  Find out what user your slapd runs as 
(varies by distro) and make sure he can see the directories you point him 
at.

Don't forget about /var/log/secure and /var/log/messages.  PAM writes 
stiff there when it has a problem.

>Problems you say? It took me months to get it working and I still have
>problems with ACL
>Wow!!  I've been trying for a solid week to get authentication to work
>via LDAP!
>Everytime I try to auth I get "Password Incorrect".....  (only setup
>pop3 for testing for now)
>I have no local accounts on my LDAP test box but I have over 27K LDAP
>entries.....
>I'm starting to get a bit frustrated......  Did you have any problems
>such as this when you first attempted to migrate to LDAP?

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