[KLUG Members] user sign on to authenticate against LDAP?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>We have LDAP installed and are converting all systems to authenticate
>against it.  Can anyone provide documentation or instructions such that
>when a person telnets into a linux box or ftps into the box, the
>authentication is done by LDAP?

You need to config /etc/ldap.conf (or use SRV records),  make sure pam_ldap.so
is installed, and adjust the pam stack of the approriate services (or the
system-auth global stack).

Also take a look at

ftp://kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/ldapv3.pdf

it has example of pam stacks, etc...

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