system-config-users and ldapi

[Braden McDaniel]

On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 06:09 -0700, Craig White wrote: 
> On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 22:03 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> > Can system-config-users be made to use ldapi (i.e., a socket connection
> > to an LDAP server)?
> > 
> > According to "man 5 libuser.conf", libuser can do this; but I haven't
> > been able to convince system-config-users.  It asks for a SASL user on
> > startup (which shouldn't be applicable, as I understand it).
> ----
> I was under the impression that system-config-users would write directly
> to /etc/passwd (/etc/shadow, /etc/group) and would not be applicable for
> use with ldap based users.
> 
> BTW, I tend to use Webmin and it's LDAP Users and Groups module to
> manage LDAP users & groups.

If you set "create_modules = ldap" in /etc/libuser.conf,
system-config-users will prompt for several LDAP authentication settings
on startup.

I have not gotten it to work, yet, though.

There is an old comment in this older bug report suggesting that this
worked at some time (in some form):

        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=89539

It may be that it requires authentication to be done via LDAP; and I'm
using Kerberos for that.

-- 
Braden McDaniel <braden at endoframe.com>