Hi Aaron! Actually i'm trying to login LDAP users as local users from command line.
I have followed this <https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-authenticate-client-computers-using-ldap-on-an-ubuntu-12-04-vps> guide but unable to perform 'ssh' On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Aaron Richton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Aneela Saleem wrote: > > Hi all, Can anyone please tell me how can i pull users from LDAP server >> and treat them as local users? So that i can login as an ldap user and test >> whether particular user have permissions to particular HDFS commands or not. >> > > I'm not sure what you're referring to by "pull." In a typical *ix setup, > you'd configure the system name services and/or authentication services to > include an LDAP backend. > > The precise details and options depend on the exact flavor of the system > you're using. nss_ldap, nss-pam-ldapd, and nssov are likely candidates on > the name service side; nss-pam-ldapd also provides a pam_ldap on the > authentication side. But again, this is somewhat system-dependent (no NSS > on OS X/Darwin, for example). > > For nssov, see the LDAPCon paper > http://ldapcon.org/2011/downloads/cheng-paper.pdf for starters. > >
