Migration Of All Users In LDAP Server In LINUX Fedora!

[Warren Sturm]

One other command you may need to look at is authconfig...which will
help set up all the config files necessary to authenticate using ldap
and other methods


authconfig --help 

and man authconfig for assistance


On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 20:40 -0800, Jyotishmaan Ray wrote:
> 
>  
> Dear All Openldap USERS on Fedora-Linux,
> 
> This is Jyotishmaan Ray, from Silchar, India.
> 
> I have been working on migration of users from fedora-linux server to
> LDAP server. Of late after i have migrated the all users, as per the
> adminitration guide of openldap sofware, i realised that i have done
> something wrong, because of which the authentication is not
> successfully happening.
> 
> Now please those openldap experts who are on linux-fedora platform
> please kindly pay attention to my questions:-
> 
> 
> 1) Is it necessary to execute the following steps :-
> 
> 
> Now you are ready to migrate the data (actually it works even without
> the export command):
> 
> export ETC_SHADOW=/etc/shadow
> ./migrate_base.pl > /tmp/base.ldif
> ./migrate_group.pl /etc/group /tmp/group.ldif
> ./migrate_hosts.pl /etc/hosts /tmp/hosts.ldif
> ./migrate_passwd.pl /etc/passwd /tmp/passwd.ldif
> 
> 
> Now we have the data in the format understood by LDAP server. Please
> open one the files with text editor to get used to the syntax. After
> that we can add the data from ldifs.
> 
> ldapadd -D "cn=Manager,dc=domain,dc=com" -W -f /tmp/base.ldif
> 
> ldapadd -D "cn=Manager,dc=domain,dc=com" -W -f /tmp/group.ldif
> 
> ldapadd -D "cn=Manager,dc=domain,dc=com" -W -f /tmp/passwd.ldif
> 
> ldapadd -D "cn=Manager,dc=domain,dc=com" -W -f /tmp/hosts.ldif
> 
> 
> 
> However, i have not performed all the above steps except for the
> addition of users!!
> 
> 
> 
> As of now, when i finger the users, it shows fine. But when i try to
> log ion to the server machine using ssh localhost.localdomain. -l xyx,
> 
> it asks me the password twice one trial after another and susequently
> throwing the message:-
> 
> 
> 
> [root at authdns bin]# ssh authdns.nits.ac.in -l jmaan
> jmaan at authdns.nits.ac.in's password: 
> Permission denied, please try again.
> jmaan at authdns.nits.ac.in's password: 
> Permission denied, please try again.
> jmaan at authdns.nits.ac.in's password: 
> Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password).
> 
> 
> [root at authdns bin]# 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> After seaching on the google.co.in, i have changed the default
> permission of the /dev/tty (666) to 777.
> 
> 
> 
> Still it is not successfully working with ssh. I just wanted to make
> it sure that i could log in with user locally, to my server. However,
> the /etc/passwd file does not shows the passwd field of the users as
> 'x' but rather as '*'. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> To check this i have tried using the command,
> 
> 
> 
> getent passwd|grep user
> 
> 
> 
> it worked fine.
> 
> 
> 
> Please tell me it is because i have not performed the first few steps
> of ldapadd of base.ldif, hosts.ldif, group.ldif to the ldap server
> that, its not working.
> 
> 
> 
> I have also worked with the command:-
> 
> 
> pwconv
> 
> 
> 
> to generate the new shadow file from  the /etc/passwd file.
> 
> 
> 
> Please help!!
> 
> With Thanks and Regards, 
> Jyotishmaan Ray 
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