LDAP authentication on FC3

Justin Willmert justin at jdjlab.com
Fri Nov 4 04:26:44 UTC 2005


Matthew Benjamin wrote:
> Can someone answer this question? I want to use my LDAP server to
> authenticate with my FC3 servers, however all of the user id are numeric
> in the forms of "12345", "5432", etc. Without the parenthesis of course.
> The dilemma is in Linux an all numeric name is an invalid name. Does
> anyone know of a workaround?
> 
> mB.
> 
> 
If you're talking about the uid field in the LDAP entry, that refers to 
the user's name, as in "nobody". The actual linux uid goes in the field 
uidNumber like 65534.

If your saying that the actual login name of the user is "12345", then 
I'm afraid I can't help you.

Justin Willmert




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