guide for setting up ldap server with ubuntu

sniff · 06-01-2021, 01:11 PM

Hi all,

I would like to experiment with setting up an ldap server on ubuntu. I am having some trouble. It doesn't seem to try to authenticate users using ldap, I just get username not found when doing su - user or logging in.

Client systems also don't seem to be able to find the server, but ldapsearch works.

Is there a good howto out there as I think I need to try it again from the start.

Thanks. Phil

frankbell · 06-01-2021, 07:29 PM

Here's a howto from Ubuntu: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/service-ldap

A web search of "ldap ubuntu" will turn up a number of other articles.

sniff · 06-02-2021, 04:23 AM

That is the one that I followed, among others. But I don't seem to be able to get the system going.

LDAP Account Manager shows the accounts but I cannot seem to be able to get actual logins going and I don't seem to get any errors reported in logs, or anything very useful in logs.

Maybe I will just try again from scratch, perhaps I just missed something and have since fiddled with it to the point where it will be easier to start again.

elgrandeperro · 06-04-2021, 12:28 PM

You are trying to use ldap to authenticate? The example you have doesn't address that at all. Did you setup the client?

Sort of like:

https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to...s-ldap-client/

sniff · 06-09-2021, 01:51 PM

Hey, I tried that guide too. I nearly got it to work with NFS for the home dirs, but its not really stable. Problems/error with it not being able to contact the server consistently.

This isn't mission critical so I am going to have another crack at it soon.

My sort of plan is to share home/login from my home server with the two desktops that I have.