LDAP be killing me. I need a good step by step

[Les Mikesell]

Craig White wrote:
>
>>>>> I suppose if Fedora saw itself as providing a turnkey distribution with
>>>>> a notion towards a specific, pre-determined configuration that simply
>>>>> worked out of the box, that would occur.
>>>> So no one expects anyone to have more than one fedora box and need them 
>>>> to share network authentication?
>>>>
>>>>>  i.e., isn't that what your
>>>>> 'e-smith' distro (or whatever it is called) does?
>>>> I thought the point of using any packaged distribution was that its own 
>>>> components would work together.  E-smith (now SME server) just does a 
>>>> kickstart install and provides a web interface that does all your 
>>>> config-file editing for you with a few concepts combined - mostly geared 
>>>> towards being server for windows boxes. It does provide an ldap setup 
>>>> suitable for an outlook address book, but it can't authenticate against 
>>>> its own LDAP server let alone a different instance.
>>> ----
>>> perhaps you need to bugzilla an RFE
>> I guess I always expected 'Fedora Directory Server' to be part of Fedora 
>> and come set up to work.  Maybe I missed something obvious here...
> ----
> coming from the guy who last week decried that it seemed the intent of
> Fedora was to be a self-contained distribution, this is extremely
> laughable. 

You mean they have to complete the inclusion of every possible package 
in the universe before making their own clients talk to their own 
server?  Otherwise I don't how this relates to anything.  And is there 
some reason not to expect 'Fedora Directory Server' to not be part of 
... Fedora?

> It is impossible to know where you are coming from.

I'd like something that works...  Do you really prefer an LDAP 
authentication client that won't work with the server as shipped in the 
same distribution?

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   Les Mikesell
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