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

[Lara Adianto <m1r4cle_26@yahoo.com>]

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. How can I achieve this ?

--- 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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