LDAP training coarse

mijohnst · 07-09-2009, 06:01 PM

Has any taken and/or recommend a coarse in LDAP integration? I would love if I could make my labs a single sign-on. Any recommendations would be great.

cmdln · 07-09-2009, 11:54 PM

The only one I know of is the course of hard knocks.

Seriously ldap is a pita.
Are all of your clients Linux clients or do you need to auth windows as well?

If you want to auth wi does you can fake a nt4 style domain controller with samba backed by ldap. I know there are tutorials around for that. Then you can auth your Linux clients against ldap directly with Pam-ldap.

mijohnst · 07-10-2009, 01:36 PM

Thanks for the response... I'm actually looking to mix the authentication of Linux and Solaris machines into a Windows 2003 AD environment. I've read where people have done it, but not much out there (that I could find) on how to actually do it. You'd think some training company would make a killing with a class like that.

cmdln · 07-10-2009, 11:27 PM

You should be able to do that. Look into pam_ldap I'm pretty sure thats what you need. Ive used it to authenticate Linux against a faked DC before. Never had a windows DC but thats what you will need to auth against it. You will also probably need hemidal for kerberos. Sorry cant be of more help but Ive never done it. Ive been able to successfully avoid having a windows server

scottro11 · 07-11-2009, 08:00 PM

I have a page that I just put together recently. It covers using LDAP for a system wide address book and Linux authentication server. (Haven't looked into using it with Solaris.) If nothing else, it has a useful list of links at the end.

If you feel like playing with it, give it a try...to *me*, it was the page I wish I'd found when first working with ldap. <shrug>

http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/ldap.html