Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:45:33 -0500 From: "Darek M." <darek@nyi.net> To: Jon Theil Nielsen <jontheil@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LDAP user authentication? Message-ID: <47B8B90D.4060609@nyi.net> In-Reply-To: <8f82c35c0802131110l7c678965qe6d0c3432f008254@mail.gmail.com> References: <8f82c35c0802131110l7c678965qe6d0c3432f008254@mail.gmail.com>
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Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: > 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 At the risk of a thread-jack... how are home directories handled? Will 'user' have a home dir on the local system? I suppose once LDAP is set up properly, you can then create the home dir, then chown it 'user', with 'user' not being a local user and not in passwd/master.passwd files. So when you chown/chgrp, those commands go through pam/nss/ldap to retrieve the proper id and name from the LDAP server? For anyone that runs such a system, is there a delay when logging in or 'ls -l'ing an LDAP user's files, etc? Or is it unnoticeable if the network between them is resonably responsive? - Darek
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