Fedora Directory server authentication ?

LinuxLover · 11-01-2008, 04:23 AM

Helo,

I am trying to use Fedora Directory Server 1.0.4 on RHEL4.

I am able to authenticate the client from FDS server.

User able to login at client machine but as there is not user account on local machine user resides in / . How can I be able to access the user's home directory from server alongwith FDS authentication.

acid_kewpie · 11-02-2008, 12:31 PM

well FDS is a wrapper around openldap, so only providing the ldap directory. for a common home you'd be looking at an NFS or NAS based storage generally.

LinuxLover · 11-02-2008, 10:18 PM

Thanks acid_kewpie for your comment.

Now I am able to authenticate and mount user home directories from server with the help of NFS and automount.

Automount automatically mount the home dir from the server ,when I user log in.

I am facing a trivial problem in this process,which is unable to solve so for.

As all the user account on server exist in FDS not in the system account, so when I created the home directory of user on server,who should be its owner and group, so that after logging from client machine user should be able to write data

acid_kewpie · 11-03-2008, 05:09 AM

I don't follow. Maybe you're not authenticating users in nsswitch.conf via ldap? if you run "getent passwd" you'll see all users able to log into that box, local or remote. if you've created an nfs directory as that user in a central location then the uid and gid data will match up elsewhere.