Re: how to make solaris 8 authenticate to an external openldap server

[Duncan Brannen <dbb@st-andrews.ac.uk>]

It's possible,
        I've done this when setting up samba servers to use ldap.

I can't remember the reasoning but I'm pretty sure the samba how-to recommended
Padl's pam_ldap and nss_ldap (Have a look for samba / ldap howto's)

You also need to set up a /etc/ldap.conf file.  (I edited the one that came 
from padl.com)
Then when you do a ldapsearch, things like the host are looked up in there 
(or the users .ldaprc as I recall)

Sorry if I'm a bit vague - it was all a while ago, but you should be able 
to get the info you
need from the samba/ldap/pdc how to.

        Duncan

At 10:36 28/06/2004, Lara Adianto wrote:
> Btw, I forgot to mention that my main concern is on
> user login authentication. Hence, a user who wants to
> login to solaris 8 will be authenticated by external
> ldap server. Can I achieve this using pam ?
>
> --- Lara Adianto <m1r4cle_26@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > I would like to make solaris 8 to authenticate to an
> > external openldap server installed in redhat linux.
> > The authentication should be secured, probably using
> > TLS/SSL...
> >
> > Has anybody achieved this ?
> > I've read this:
> >
> http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200209/msg00588.html,
> >
> > but I'm getting confused though.
> >
> > Can I achieve my objective using ldap native client
> > or
> > should I use the pam_ldap from PADL ?
> > I read somewhere that ldap native client can't use
> > SSL.  Is this true ?
> >
> > I've experimented on ldap native client, creating
> > /var/ldap/ldap_client_file, specifying my ldap
> > server
> > and /var/ldap/ldap_client_cred. But when I do
> > ldapsearch, I still need to specify the ldap server
> > using -h option, otherwise I'll get can't contact
> > ldap
> > server. Why ?
> >
> > regards,
> > lara
> >
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