Re: RedHat Linux Authorization with OpenLDAP

[Dustin Doris <openldap@mail.doris.cc>]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Adam Williams wrote:

> >      I'm using RedHat 9.0 and am trying to perform my system authorization
> > against my LDAP directory.  I used RH's authconfig tool to setup the
> > authorization scheme using LDAP and PAM.  However, when I test login,
> > authorization from my directory is blocked apparently because I have
> > blocked anonymous binding in my slapd.conf file.
> >      Does anyone know if it is possible to perform authentication to LDAP
> > using PAM while still disallowing anonymous binding, or am I just going to
> > have to work on building more and stronger ACLs to limit anonymous binds to
> > auth?
>
> Just put a binddn in /etc/ldap.conf
>

Don't forget to give read access to your users in your ACL.

> >      Also, if anyone has some experience w/ RH doing auth to LDAP, and
> > knows of some good documentation sources, they'd be greatly appreciated.
>
> ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/ldapv3.pdf

Also, this is a very good book that covers it.

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ldapsa/

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