Last year in July, I write a *very* quick guide to integrating a "foreign" Linux distribution into the Skolelinux/Debian ldap/autofs setup, here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2004/07/msg00165.html
Lately people have told me that they haven't had any success following the instructions in that mail. So, I though I'd try following those instructions myself, and see how well that goes, success, and here is how. Last time I used a Knoppix installed to hardrive as "foreign" Linux distribution, this time I'll use Ubuntu 5.10, I will not comment on Ubuntu itself. The server is based on Skolelinux/debian-edu pr05, which is Sarge based. First on the Ubuntu machine, you must enable the universe package repository, by adding/uncommenting these lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe Then do your apt-get update You need some packages installed on Ubuntu for all this to work: ( \ means one long line) apt-get install autofs-ldap ldap-utils libldap2 \ libnss-ldap libpam-ldap nscd Also install ssh, as that is very handy to have installed, and Ubuntu doesn't install it as default: apt-get install ssh Just press [Enter] and accept whatere default you are presented with regarding ldap and so on, we will take care of the configuration files later. From a Skolelinux/Debian-edu (in this case based on pr05) workstation take the following files/directories: /etc/pam.d /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/libnss-ldap.conf /etc/nscd.conf /etc/default/autofs /etc/init.d/autofs /etc/ldap /etc/pam_ldap.conf /etc/auto.master There might be files included here, that is not necessary for making ldap/autofs work, someone should comment on that, please. For those without a Skolelinux/debian-edu workstation, I've uploaded these files to http://www.skolelinux.no/~klaus/skolelinux.ldap.autofs.tgz You should also take a backup copy of these files on your Ubuntu machine, before installing these files from Skolelinux/Debian-edu: this is a handy way of doing that:( \ means one long line) tar zcvf Ubuntu.ldap.autofs.backup.tgz \ /etc/pam.d \ /etc/nsswitch.conf \ /etc/libnss-ldap.conf \ /etc/nscd.conf \ /etc/default/autofs \ /etc/init.d/autofs \ /etc/ldap \ /etc/pam_ldap.conf \ /etc/auto.master It's almost the same way for copying these files from the Skolelinux/Debian-edu machine:( \ means one long line) tar zcvf skolelinux.ldap.autofs.tgz \ /etc/pam.d \ /etc/nsswitch.conf \ /etc/libnss-ldap.conf \ /etc/nscd.conf \ /etc/default/autofs \ /etc/init.d/autofs \ /etc/ldap \ /etc/pam_ldap.conf \ /etc/auto.master Transfer this archive Skolelinux.ldap.autofs.tgz over to the Ubuntu machine somehow, maybe with scp scp skolelinux.ldap.autofs.tgz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ Become root, then unpack the archive skolelinux.ldap.autofs.tgz tar zvxf skolelinux.ldap.autofs.tgz -C / Create the automount point on Ubuntu mkdir /skole Unless you add your Ubuntu machine to the Skolelinux/debian edu netgroups, it's won't be able to mount your home-dirs, have a look at http://www.skolelinux.no/~klaus/newnotater/x2097.html When this is all done, reboot the Ubuntu machine. When it starts again, you should be able to verify that ldap is working in Ubuntu by running: getent passwd and seeing all your Skolelinux/debian-edu ldap-users Running su - username should let you become that user, and that users home-dir should now automatically be mounted from Skolelinux/debian-edu. If the process of mounting takes very loooong, several minutes, and you simultaneously see this messages in syslog on the Ubuntu machine: nfs warning: mount version older than kernel server localhost not responding, timed out nsm_mon_unmon: rpc failed, status=-5 lockd: cannot monitor 10.0.2.2 lockd: failed to monitor 10.0.2.2 Then you might want to add the option nolock to ldap on your server, this does that on the Skolelinux/debian-edu server: ( \ means one long line) ldapsearch -LLLx objectClass=automount automountInformation \ | sed -e "s:intr tjener:intr,nolock tjener:g" | ldapmodify -xWZD \ cn=admin,ou=People,dc=skole,dc=Skolelinux,dc=no After this you must restart ldap /etc/init.d/slapd restart You should now be able to login, with you username/password and homedir from Skolelinux/debian-edu. Please drop me an email if this works, and if this doesn't work. There might be a more layout friendly verson of this mail included in the upcoming Sarge version of newdriftbook; http://www.skolelinux.no/~klaus/newnotater/index.html http://www.skolelinux.no/~klaus/newnotater_Sarge/index.html Klaus
