Chakkaradeep C C
2007-Apr-04 05:18 UTC
[Fedora-directory-users] Regarding Fedora Clients Authentication to FDS
Hi All, I have been trying for many days in getting a fedora machine authenticated via FDS and I am not able to. As far as I see, all the options in nsswitch.conf, system-auth pam file and ldap.conf are proper and the nss too mapped in ldap.conf. I have also selected the Password as Unix Crypt Password in the Directory Server. Moreover, I used authconfig to change the Authentication type. I am not sure why my machine is not fetching user names from FDS. And, if i do a ldapsearch as, ldapserach -x -b "dc=fdsdomain,dc=com" from the fedora machine, i am able to get all the ldap details. I would be happy if anyone could help me. I am struggling for the past 3 days :( Thanks, -- Regards, C.C.Chakkaradeep, http://chakkaradeep.wordpress.com -- "Sometimes it''s better not to ask - or to listen - when people tell you something can''t be done. I didnt ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it." - from "Direct from Dell"
Chakkaradeep C C
2007-Apr-05 03:35 UTC
[Fedora-directory-users] Re: Regarding Fedora Clients Authentication to FDS
Hi All, I tried FDS a lot and also seeked help from IRC and this mailing lists regarding how to get clients authenticated to FDS. I didnt receive ANY help and was (in IRC) sent back that I am not thorough with the LDAP Basics. I was surprised to get that answer. After trying nearly for hours, I switched to openLDAP and Ubuntu as Client, and believe me, THEY WORKED LIKE CHARM !. Just 1 hour spent, LDAP server and client up! FDS looks to be a good product but it still needs extensive documentation. "Run authconfig, that should do the job for the client" isnt enough. I did that, edited pam files, nsswitch.conf files, nothing worked in fedora (version 6) with FDS. But with openLDAP, it worked. I also have to admit that openLDAP and fedora as client didnt work with authconfig. I am running openLDAP in Fedora Core system and that looks to be great. I am very disappointed that there is not much help available from FDS Users, from this mailing list or IRC . Any special reason for this? Even when a User has a dumb question like, "I am not able to add Clients", why cant it be complex? -- Regards, C.C.Chakkaradeep, http://chakkaradeep.wordpress.com -- "Sometimes it''s better not to ask - or to listen - when people tell you something can''t be done. I didnt ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it." - from "Direct from Dell"
Diwakoe
2007-Apr-05 03:54 UTC
Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Re: Regarding Fedora Clients Authentication to FDS
On 4/5/07, Chakkaradeep C C <chaks.yoper@gmail.com> wrote:> Hi All, > > I tried FDS a lot and also seeked help from IRC and this mailing lists > regarding how to get clients authenticated to FDS. I didnt receive ANY help > and was (in IRC) sent back that I am not thorough with the LDAP Basics. I > was surprised to get that answer. After trying nearly for hours, I switched > to openLDAP and Ubuntu as Client, and believe me, THEY WORKED LIKE CHARM !. > Just 1 hour spent, LDAP server and client up! >It would be nice if you can post your experience to configure clients get authenticate with FDS to your blog or in here. I appreciate that. Regards, Diwa
Chakkaradeep C C
2007-Apr-05 04:19 UTC
Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Re: Regarding Fedora Clients Authentication to FDS
Hi, It would be nice if you can post your experience to configure clients> get authenticate with FDS to your blog or in here.I am still not able to get clients authenticated to FDS. But sure I will update my blog regarding my openLDAP and Ubuntu client :) and if FDS works, FDS too. I think that there is some problem with the /etc/pam.d/system-auth which authconfig didnt change. Exploring into it. -- Regards, C.C.Chakkaradeep, http://chakkaradeep.wordpress.com -- "Sometimes it''s better not to ask - or to listen - when people tell you something can''t be done. I didnt ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it." - from "Direct from Dell"
Yonathan Dossow
2007-Apr-05 04:29 UTC
Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Re: Regarding Fedora Clients Authentication to FDS
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:19:17PM +1200, Chakkaradeep C C wrote:> Hi,> It would be nice if you can post your experience to configure clients > >get authenticate with FDS to your blog or in here.> I am still not able to get clients authenticated to FDS. But sure I will > update my blog regarding my openLDAP and Ubuntu client :) and if FDS works, > FDS too.i have FDS with a lot of fedora clients, to configure the clients i use this command: authconfig --useshadow --usemd5 --enableldap --enableldapauth \ --ldapserver=myserver1,myserver2 --ldapbasedn=dc=domain,dc=com \ --enablecache --kickstart and works fine. -- Yonathan H. Dossow Acun~a http://kronin.bla.cl Estudiante Ingenieria Civil Informatica Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria Valparaiso, Chile