Re: Mac OS X 10.2.1 Server & Linux Authentication

[Luke Howard <lukeh@PADL.COM>]

Hi Daniel,

>    I recently setup a Linux box (specifically Yellow Dog Linux 2.3) on a
>box on the same network as a 10.2 Server.  The 10.2 Server is setup to
>share it's password database via LDAPv3.  This works.  Linux is
>authenticating perfectly to it.  I must say it setup extremely easy. 

Great!

>ldappasswd -x -W -D 'uid=daniel,cn=users,dc=hdcnet,dc=org'
>  Result: Protocol Error (2)
>  Additional Info: Data Decoding Error

Try the ldappasswd version from OpenLDAP 2.1.

>Oh, my end-result desired is this.  Netatalk running authenticating with
>pam, using pam_ldap.  I want my users to be able to click the "change
>password" button in the chooser and have netatalk via pam change the
>password in the ldap database.  If I end up doing things with a script
>that pam runs which encrypts the password and manually updates the data

Nifty.

-- Luke

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