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Re: migrating from (old) /etc/shadow to LDAP

Simone Piccardi wrote:

On 22/09/2011 16:10, Christopher Wood wrote:

Debian/Ubuntu: install nslcd, libnss-ldapd, libpam-ldapd, configure your /etc/nslcd.conf, and ensure you have "compat ldap" as lookups listed in /etc/nsswitch.conf for passwd, group, shadow. (I figure on the whole nss-pam-ldapd arrangement for CentOS6 too, but I haven't gotten that far yet.)


This, at least for Debian Stable and Ubuntu LTS has an important
shortcoming, it does not update shadowLastChange on password change. So
if you set a password expiration they will stay expired forever.
Not a major shortcoming. If you're actually using LDAP then you should set expiration using ppolicy and not using shadow attributes at all. 


It can be made working with a patched smbk5pwd overlay in the openldap
server, but that's not present in Debian or Ubuntu.

Simone


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