On 2006-12-19, Niki Kovacs <mickey@mouse.com> wrote:
>
> As far as I reckon, Slackware doesn't include anything like LDAP. Q:
> what's the best way to configure "portable" user configurations in a
> network with our favourite distro. (Anxious question: is there one?)

Q: what are you hoping to get out of LDAP? If you're planning to do
authentication from Slackware clients, then you need a few things:

--At least one LDAP server; you can either build from source or modify a
SlackBuild for this (I think it's just a configure switch).

--The nss_ldap libraries from padl.com on all the clients. You'll need
to do this yourself, as it's not a standard Slackware package. The
default configuration options are generally sufficient.

You should probably search the newsgroup archives for more on LDAP; I
and others have written more extensively about it in the past.

--keith

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