system-config-users and ldapi

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 10:37 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 06:09 -0700, Craig White wrote: 
> > On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 22:03 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> > > Can system-config-users be made to use ldapi (i.e., a socket connection
> > > to an LDAP server)?
> > > 
> > > According to "man 5 libuser.conf", libuser can do this; but I haven't
> > > been able to convince system-config-users.  It asks for a SASL user on
> > > startup (which shouldn't be applicable, as I understand it).
> > ----
> > I was under the impression that system-config-users would write directly
> > to /etc/passwd (/etc/shadow, /etc/group) and would not be applicable for
> > use with ldap based users.
> > 
> > BTW, I tend to use Webmin and it's LDAP Users and Groups module to
> > manage LDAP users & groups.
> 
> If you set "create_modules = ldap" in /etc/libuser.conf,
> system-config-users will prompt for several LDAP authentication settings
> on startup.
> 
> I have not gotten it to work, yet, though.
> 
> There is an old comment in this older bug report suggesting that this
> worked at some time (in some form):
> 
>         https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=89539
> 
> It may be that it requires authentication to be done via LDAP; and I'm
> using Kerberos for that.
----
If there was actual intent to use it with ldap users & groups, there
would be configuration possibilities for the schema(s) used. It's not
and never was a suitable tool for the purpose.

Craig


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