Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:45:01 +1200 From: "Steven Jones" Steven.Jones@vuw.ac.nz
I have written the below, if it is helpful/correct by all means place it on FDS wiki.
Debian client setup
Important notes
There would seem to be at least 2 places (if not three) containing information for ldap. In order to make Debian 4 work I have deleted 2 and sym linked. It is possible on patching Debian that these files maybe restored and LDAP authentication will no longer work.
Never symlink the pam/nss_ldap config files with the OpenLDAP libldap config file. There's a reason all of these things are in separate config files - they each have distinct syntaxes. You don't know what you're doing, and you have no guarantees that any particular version of a given library won't barf all over the keywords it doesn't recognize.
There may well be an official method to setup Debian but I have not been able to locate one via Google.
Cool....nothing like an explanation of why not to do things.
Of course lacking any documentation at all....I'm left with experimentation.
regards
Steven Jones Senior Linux/Unix/San/Vmware System Administrator APG -Technology Integration Team Victoria University of Wellington Phone: +64 4 463 6272
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-directory-users-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-directory-users-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Howard Chu Sent: Friday, 14 September 2007 3:12 p.m. To: fedora-directory-users@redhat.com Subject: re: [Fedora-directory-users] Debian client to FDS howto
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:45:01 +1200 From: "Steven Jones" Steven.Jones@vuw.ac.nz
I have written the below, if it is helpful/correct by all means place
it
on FDS wiki.
Debian client setup
Important notes
There would seem to be at least 2 places (if not three) containing information for ldap. In order to make Debian 4 work I have deleted 2 and sym linked. It is possible on patching Debian that these files
maybe
restored and LDAP authentication will no longer work.
Never symlink the pam/nss_ldap config files with the OpenLDAP libldap config file. There's a reason all of these things are in separate config files - they each have distinct syntaxes. You don't know what you're doing, and you have no guarantees that any particular version of a given library won't barf all over the keywords it doesn't recognize.
There may well be an official method to setup Debian but I have not
been
able to locate one via Google.
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