Re: question about openldap as a server

[Kelly Sauke <ksauke@fastenal.com>]

On the linux machine just get openldap to access connections from 
anywhere on the network.  On the solaris machine use ldapclient to 
configure the ldap nss and pam (the authentication stuff) that is 
shipped with solaris.  The config file under solaris is 
/var/ldap/ldap_client_file but should only be edited via ldapclient 
command.  You would use a command line like the following to configure 
your solaris machine to use your linux box.

ldapclient manual -a 
defaultserverlist=fully.qualified.hostname.of.linux.box -a 
defaultSearchBase='dc=domain,dc=com' -a proxyDN=<the DN of the proxy 
user> -a proxyPassword=<the password for the proxy user> -a 
authenticationMethod=tls:simple

The proxyDN and proxyPassword aren't used as far as I can tell but they  
need to be there for everything to work correctly.  Can't explain why.

man ldapclient for more info on configuring the ldap pam and nss stuff.  
The above commandline is Solaris 9 centric, I don't know how it compares 
to anything before S9.

KS

Ang, Melissa wrote:

> hello all! I've currently setup openldap in my linux machine. the thing is I want other boxes such as solaris, hp, aix ,etc to use the entries (i.e. username and password) in my openldap in the linux machine. is it possible to set this up if these machines don't have openldap installed. I've been reading about openldap and so far it seems to me that it assumes that the server and client is on the same machine. ie. using openldap and ldapclient for solaris. what i would like to do is to just  connect to the openldap in linux. is there a configuration file for this? I couldn't seem to find it on the web? help!! thanks!
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