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Hi,

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?)

Cheers,

Niki
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Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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?)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki

Slackware 11.0 has a openldap-client package and lots of the other
stuff (Samba, KDE for instance) is compiled against it's libraries.

Eric

Le Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:48:02 +0100, Eric Hameleers a écrit*:

> Slackware 11.0 has a openldap-client package and lots of the other
> stuff (Samba, KDE for instance) is compiled against it's libraries.

Thanks! Now what's the best (understand: most hassle-free) way to get
openldap-server on the server box? It *seems* like the only thing to do is
rebuild openldap (from the SlackBuild) with server options enabled. Can
you confirm/infirm this?

Niki
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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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Niki Kovacs wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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?)

the best method is:
get http://www.openldap.org/software/download/
compile it by yourself and create package with checkinstall.

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Niki Kovacs <mickey@mouse.com> wrote:
> what's the best way to configure "portable" user configurations in a
> network with our favourite distro. (Anxious question: is there one?)

I might be a bit old-fasioned, but I prefer to have user information in
NIS and home directories on an NFS server. However, this assumes that you
are in a network environment where you can trust the computers and the
users.

regards Henrik
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Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
> --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 advantage of rebuilding the same source with different configuration
options is that there is no risk that you also have to rebuild other
applications that link to openldap. I don't know how backwards-compatible
openldap is, but if an uncompatible version would be installed other
applications like php and samba would need to be recompiled also.

regards Henrik
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Le Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:20:16 -0800, Keith Keller a écrit*:

> Q: what are you hoping to get out of LDAP?

I'm currently configuring a public computer room, with seven PC's (all
running Slack 11.0), and there will be a bunch of users. For the moment,
every user has "his" assigned machine with his (static) account on it. So
I just thought LDAP was the solution to permit users to authenticate on
any free machine in the room.

Do you know another, maybe more viable, solution for this?

Cheers,

Niki
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philosophicus, first draft.

Le Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:12:14 +0100, Henrik Carlqvist a écrit*:

> I might be a bit old-fasioned, but I prefer to have user information in
> NIS and home directories on an NFS server. However, this assumes that you
> are in a network environment where you can trust the computers and the
> users.

Looks like you just uncovered... a black hole of ignorance/ Never heard
about that, and I sense this is some *terrible* competence failure...

/me hurries to read the docs.

Niki
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Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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?)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki
>
There's a good series running currently in Linux Journal about LDAP --
take a look at http://www.linuxjournal.com for Tom Adelstein's LDAP
series. Might give you a leg up, eh.

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