Skip to content
Snippets Groups Projects
Commit e31ad3dd authored by Goik Martin's avatar Goik Martin
Browse files

Newer LDAP client config link

parent efb365df
No related branches found
No related tags found
No related merge requests found
......@@ -1269,30 +1269,23 @@ tar zxf /root/pam.tgz # Restore your working PAM configuration</screen>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Activation of OS level <xref linkend="glo_LDAP"/> user and
group support is being outlined in <link
xlink:href="https://wiki.debian.org/LDAP/PAM">Configuring LDAP
Authentication</link>.</para>
<para>Activation of OS level <xref linkend="glo_LDAP"/> user, group
and password support is being outlined in <link
xlink:href="https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-configure-ubuntu-as-ldap-client">Configure
LDAP Client on Ubuntu</link>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Follow the «newer» <link
xlink:href="https://wiki.debian.org/LDAP/PAM#PAM_Setup_with_libpam-ldapd">PAM
Setup with libpam-ldapd approach</link> rather than using the older
<package>libpam-ldap</package> package.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>If your <xref linkend="glo_LDAP"/> server features a user
having e.g. <code>uid=ldaptest</code> this should allow for viewing
its meta data on the client side:</para>
<para> <xref linkend="glo_LDAP"/> user entry DN's must be addressed
by uid e.g. <code>uid=ldaptest,ou=people,...</code> . On successful
configuration you should see:</para>
<screen>$ id ldaptest
uid=1001(ldaptest) gid=1001(ldaptest) groups=1001(ldaptest)</screen>
<para>A <quote>id: ‘<code>ldaptest</code>’: no such user</quote>
message indicates your <xref linkend="glo_LDAP"/> setup does not yet
work.</para>
message indicates your <xref linkend="glo_LDAP"/> setup does not
(yet) work.</para>
<tip>
<itemizedlist>
......@@ -1325,20 +1318,19 @@ shadow: files ldap</programlisting>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>On your <xref linkend="glo_LDAP"/> server side: Enable
an appropriate <link
<para>For debugging login attempts you may want setting your
<xref linkend="glo_LDAP"/> server's <link
xlink:href="http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ch6/#loglevel">logging
level</link> for debugging connection attempts. You may want
to select <option>conns</option>, <option>config</option> and
<option>stats</option>.</para>
level</link> to at least including <option>conns</option>,
<option>config</option> and <option>stats</option>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</tip>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Create the required user home directory manually and change
owner and group accordingly.</para>
<para>Create the required user home directory manually beforehand
setting owner and group accordingly.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
......
0% Loading or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment