Answer-- RE: OpenLDAP references

[Dennis Ruzeski]

I should have already known this, but O'Reilly to the rescue!

The 'ferret' book, LDAP System Administration by Gerald Carter saved the day. Before you even think about setting up ldap, get this book and check out the following websites
http://www.padl.com
http://www.metaconsultancy.com/whitepapers/ldap.htm
http://www.metaconsultancy.com/whitepapers/ldap-linux.htm

The websites are great, but the book is the bomb..

--Dennis




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From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org]On Behalf Of
Dennis Ruzeski
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 10:10 AM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: OpenLDAP references
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Greetings, all-

Here's my situation. We've gotten to the point here where there's a need for central authentication for our developers. Rather than set up NIS+ or try to use our M$ Active Directory, we're setting up an LDAP server.  
No problem. The server and database is set up properly and I can use authconfig to make the linux systems point to it. The problem is in the details- User home directories, for example. I know I don't need a copy on every box- How do I get it to be available on the logged-in system?    What I'm looking for is a decent reference on how to set up the stuff that authconfig doesn't (pam, home directories, email, etc....)

TIA, 
Dennis