Well, I got NFS installed, and have been impressed by how fast it compiled, and how easy it is to setup exports. It's REALLY handy to be able to refer to remote files as if they were local - and faster too because they are not being encrypted via fish. I'm sure I have some tweaking left to get NFS configured properly and securely, but it's doing what I need right now.
I have also setup an LDAP server, based on the instructions at this site: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ldap-howto.xml. It appears my LDAP server is running, but I can't figure out how to get my Suse workstation to use it for authentication. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me can maybe offer a suggestion? The points that I'm not sure on are as follows: The above configuration guide indicates to test your LDAP server with the command "getent passwd|grep 0:0", which should return two entries similar to "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash". When I run the command, I only get one entry returned. Is this cause for concern? Second, I've enabled the LDAP client in Suse YaST. But I cannot figure out how to make my logins check the LDAP server. Do I have to do something different with my username when I'm logging in? Maybe something like "ldap:/sgrover"? (nope, that doesn't work...) I have a feeling my pam configuration files need to be modified - when I look at the /etc/pam.d/login file on my suse workstation, there is no references to pam_ldap.so. Is this the core problem? Thanks for any tips you may have. If needed I can post the various config files - I'm just not sure which ones would be helpful at this point. Shawn On Tuesday 12 October 2004 21:02, Shawn wrote: > I'm getting to a point where I have too many Linux systems running and have > a need to login to each of them on a regular basis. So, instead of running > SSH sessions to each box when I need access I'd like to switch things over > to a central authentication system, and allow remote file access. This > would be done in a completely Linux environment, so I have no need for > Samba to allow windows access (well, maybe, but I can handle that > separately). I'm not looking for an SMB/CIFS solution as I have experience > with Samba, but don't have any with NFS/NIS, or whatever else is needed. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
