CentOS - May 2006 - fedora directory server (FDS)

On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 19:39 -0500, israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu
wrote:
> Thanks Craig for your soon answer..  I've now the FDS up and running...
> I am now creating my users in FDS because I want to unify the
> authentication of my 3 centos servers. BUT, When I create my users in
> FDS I don't see any option  of UID, GID, home directory, etc, so the
FDS
> server return an error and my remote users can't authenticate....... 
> 
> my question is?
> 
> 1. Can I use FDS to authenticate remote linux users? I mean create in
> FDS a user with UID, GID, home directory. 
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yes - if you are using Fedora 'console' application, it should be fairly
obvious how to set these up.
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> 
> 2. Can I  set up another server with authconfig (Use LDAP
> Authentication) pointing to my FDS?
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yes but users will still need a home directory (perhaps nfs or
automount)
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> 2. Does FDS do exactly the same of openldap?
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yes - but both require authconfig to properly set up pam and both
require proper configuration of /etc/ldap and /etc/nsswitch
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> 
> 3. Does anybody knows any way to migrate all users from /etc/passwd to
> FDS? (I know openldap does)
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same tools...padl migration scripts that are actually packaged by redhat
as part of openldap-server...
yum install openldap-server
ls -l /usr/share/openldap/migration
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> 
> 4. Is FDS better than Openldap?
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different
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> 
> PD: I just want set up a LDAP server to my network to unify all my
> servers.
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makes sense

Craig

Thanks Craig for your soon answer..  I've now the FDS up and running... 
I am now creating my users in FDS because I want to unify the
authentication of my 3 centos servers. BUT, When I create my users in
FDS I don't see any option  of UID, GID, home directory, etc, so the FDS
server return an error and my remote users can't authenticate....... 

my question is?

1. Can I use FDS to authenticate remote linux users? I mean create in
FDS a user with UID, GID, home directory. 

2. Can I  set up another server with authconfig (Use LDAP
Authentication) pointing to my FDS?

2. Does FDS do exactly the same of openldap?

3. Does anybody knows any way to migrate all users from /etc/passwd to
FDS? (I know openldap does)

4. Is FDS better than Openldap?

PD: I just want set up a LDAP server to my network to unify all my
servers.

Regards;
Israel