[KLUG Members] making a linux machine auth against an ldap server.

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I knew ldap would be forced on me eventually.

Sort of like death,  it will visit everyone eventually

> I am trying to set up linux PAM so folks can log on with linux, and
> authenticate against   LDAP.
> I'm told an easy way to go about doing this is connect with a 'big'
> account, find the userid, then reconnect with the found userid.

? Not certain what you mean.

> if you can bind to the LDAP with your ldap userid and password, you
> should be able to login to a linux machine with the campus wide
> username and password.
> I'm having trouble using the correct syntax in the /etc/ldap.conf file.
> basically I can't specify a wmuuid, I have to look it up, according to
> the uid, which the user types in..
> get it!?

Not exactly.  First, what is a wmmuid?  Second do you know what DSA you
are looking at (vendor/version)?  First figure out how to make
ldapsearch work *THEN* do PAM and NSS.  Does the DSA support SASL?  If
so then you may not need a DN to bind with just some username.  Do
anonymous queries work?