[KLUG Members] DNS, BIND and LDAP? [DNS]

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > > Okay, so I got LDAP running, managing logins, and now I was hoping to
> > > have it handle DNS as well. I've noticed a few projects to support this,
> > > in various stages of development, but nothing that really looks ready.
> > > Has anyone here set up a network DNS on LDAP, and if so, how?
> > If you have a recent SuSe your bind may already have LDAP support -
> > littleboy:~ # rpm -q bind bind-9.3.0-2.1
> > littleboy:~ # ldd /usr/sbin/named
> >         libldap-2.2.so.7 => /usr/lib/libldap-2.2.so.7 (0x401af000)
> >         liblber-2.2.so.7 => /usr/lib/liblber-2.2.so.7 (0x401e1000)
> > So you just need to create bind zones in named.conf that look like -
> > zone "mormail.com" IN {
> >         type master;
> >         database "ldap
> > ldap://192.168.1.9/zoneName=mormail.com,ou=bindSDB,ou=SubSystems,o=Morrison%20Industries,c=US 172800";
> >         allow-update { none; };
> > - and load the required objects into the Dit at the specified location -
> So, there isn't a tool to do this? It took some finding, but I saw where
> YaST can create LDAP-based user and group records. I mean, I CAN create
> the LDIF file manually, I guess, I but I sort of hoped someone had come
> up with a tool to simplify this by now.

If you have the schema loaded then tools like GQ make creating the
objects pretty easy.  And PHPLDAPAdmin has templates for various object
types.  But there is no "wizard".
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