From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 14 12:20:32 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 284F616A421 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:20:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jontheil@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19BF13C4E1 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:20:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jontheil@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so546505waf.3 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:20:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=wjBEjBx6eZTVL6zSVpnP8qxopIAE4CwGzn29iA5IWOY=; b=l2j4D7HdiPidFe6b6bNP6Oyt8Vc1KbaAepKSzmLw00gK6ugwYFPs99GV4SaM00Klpu2Sjmozb6jAA5vNffnc0rILaW+iQNT4ConHBABP62VJDG9vhlQJH+wtFw6bt14ZKASz3m/7Vvdmoxfl4b4TjCoJiFBFWEJiQaMlkhLg3jg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=wRaCplSzKei0fbWj8kOsw7afcIyKwd1egIUNnfl1rz7G7/Ogn9FPcucNZraToqlJvc5cJ4ufJaLtJU++ccp89X6WwgZqmUtsRTKxqC7Gcu/IVFIAgt09l/bsPkZkCSyXdCncN1iwfOZ8i+H6cqUkP0WVOFMI4FO1XzzhbBG66kw= Received: by 10.114.159.1 with SMTP id h1mr1387386wae.122.1202991631377; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:20:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.168.6 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:20:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8f82c35c0802140420w57a1d5dfpd12b86e57efd585d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:20:31 +0100 From: "Jon Theil Nielsen" To: Dave In-Reply-To: <000301c86ed2$17177560$0200a8c0@satellite> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <8f82c35c0802131110l7c678965qe6d0c3432f008254@mail.gmail.com> <000301c86ed2$17177560$0200a8c0@satellite> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LDAP user authentication? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:20:32 -0000 > >I have googled for a very long time, but I haven't found any useful > > howto on this issue. Well, there is > > http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/FreeBSD/docs/Quick_and_dirty_FreeBSD_5_x_and_nss_ldap_mini-HOWTO.html > > but that seems to be a bit confusing an not up-to-date. I guess it > > _should_ be possible - and indeed very useful (especially combinde > > with Samba PDC and an easily maintainlable mail server). So please, if > > you have any experiences or knowledge of a useful description..! > > > > Regards, > > Jon Theil Nielsen 2008/2/14, Dave : > Hi, > I am far from an expert, in fact i'm still learning. I don't know a lot > of the jargon, that is i still get the more intense terms mixed up, but i've > been banging my head against ldap for about a month now and am starting to > show results. Right now i'm using ldap in jails on freebsd 6.2 as i don't > have all the bugs worked out to go production. I've got a directory that is > a user addressbook as well as handles authentication of users, both for the > jailed ldap server, but for two other jailed environments, one the ldap > client, the other just a test machine. I've also authenticated a linux box > against this server that works fine with a few tweaks. Right now i've got a > jail specifically for testmail setup i'm going to try to hook in email > services, pop/imap, smtp, etc. in to ldap. > If you have im abilities i can talk more there, but basically it's > definitely not trivial to get going, in my opinion others might differ. > Dave. > I have some experience with FreeBSD but not with running in jails. I migth be a solution, but I don't know. What I would really like was a thorough desription of setting LDAP authentication up for the wholw system. But I might read up on jails. Thanks anyway. Regards, Jon Theil Nielsen