[Fedora-directory-users] Regarding Fedora Clients Authentication to FDS

[Chakkaradeep C C]

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,

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[Fedora-directory-users] Re: Regarding Fedora Clients Authentication to FDS

[Chakkaradeep C C]

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?

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C.C.Chakkaradeep,
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--
"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"

[Fedora-directory-users] Re: Regarding Fedora Clients Authentication to FDS

[Diwakoe]

On 4/5/07, Chakkaradeep C C <chaks.yoper(a)gmail.com&gt; 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

[Fedora-directory-users] Re: Regarding Fedora Clients Authentication to FDS

[Chakkaradeep C C]

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.

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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"

[Fedora-directory-users] Re: Regarding Fedora Clients Authentication to FDS

[Yonathan Dossow]

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.

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Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria          Valparaiso, Chile