Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 00:19:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Cc: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: LDAP authentication/serving Message-ID: <20010621001918.R4019-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106202327120.10142-100000@shazam.int>
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Once you setup your LDAP server, you can use the pam_ldap module in /usr/ports/security/pam_ldap to do authentication off of LDAPv2 or v3. Joe Clarke On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Jim Durham wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me (if RTFM, please point to an M to R ;) ) how to > > set up FreeBSD to either: > > A) Act as an LDAP server > > or > > B) Authenticate off of another server's LDAP data. > > > > The details are rather simple. I'm about to start using MacOS X > > Server for workstation authentication at my job. It allows authentication > > to be pulled from an LDAP server if it follows a certain pattern (which I > > have documentation for) or to serve its own data out via LDAP. > > > > I've never been able to get LDAP running properly off of any > > server, so I really don't know what steps to take first or how to > > structure things or even what to expect. So any advise on how to get > > started would be appreciated. Also, any advise on which way to control > > things (serve passwords from MacOS X Server or FreeBSD) would be > > appreciated. > > > > Since no one answered you, I'll say that I have LDAP running on > 4.1-RELEASE using openldap from openldap.org. I am using it for a company > address book and contact manager, not auth, but it works well. It's in > ports (/usr/ports/net/openldap*). > > You will need to understand how schemas work and define one that is > compliant with whatever Macs want for password authorization. I'm not > doing that, so I can't help much except to say that openldap runs just > fine on FreeBSD! I have beat my way through attributes and schemas and all > that so perhaps I could answer some questions. > > -Jim Durham > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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