[SOLVED] LDAP authentication : Slackware server vs. Ubuntu client?

kikinovak · 05-28-2014, 07:55 AM

Hi,

As far as I know, LDAP authentication is not used in practice on Slackware due to the lack of PAM. That's a field I'm not familiar with, and I have a general question. If my client machines are running Ubuntu (more exactly ElementaryOS 0.2, an excellent Ubuntu 12.04 derivative), can I setup LDAP authentication against a Slackware server without having to jump through burning loops? Is it only the client machine that has to be "PAMified"?

Cheers,

Niki

ponce · 05-28-2014, 08:11 AM

Slackware by default ships only openldap-client, so you should build yourself an openldap-server package (in the example linked the openldap-client SlackBuild is taken as base): you can see here for an example of slapd.conf.

That should suffice for just authenticating against the server.

kikinovak · 05-28-2014, 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ponce

Slackware by default ships only openldap-client, so you should build yourself an openldap-server package (in the example linked the openldap-client SlackBuild is taken as base): you can see here for an example of slapd.conf.

That should suffice for just authenticating against the server.

On the server, do I also have to build Linux-PAM, pam_ldap, nss_ldap and shadow, as described in the article ?

ponce · 05-28-2014, 01:41 PM

no.
supposing you don't have any services (http or whatever) running on it that need to authenticate on the ldap server running on the same box, those are just for the clients that need to authenticate logins on the server (but you are better off integrating that stuff with vbatts' work with PAM).
in this scenario, you just do ldap queries on the server, so PAM isn't involved.

kikinovak · 05-28-2014, 03:10 PM

OK thanks !