RE: ****RE: ****Re: ****Re: Linux Administration - Users in (any) database howto/why... SAMBA and CERTS

2009-01-03 Thread Lisa Kachold
that prompts them through the process? www.Obnosis.com | http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:obnosis | (503)754-4452 January PLUG HackFest = Kristy Westphal, AZ Department of Economic Security Forensics @ UAT 1/10/09 12-3PM Subject: Re: RE: Re: Re: Linux Administration - Users

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2009-01-02 Thread Lisa Kachold
have the WINDOWS ADMINS DO USER MAINTENANCE www.Obnosis.com | http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:obnosis | (503)754-4452 January PLUG HackFest = Kristy Westphal, AZ Department of Economic Security Forensics @ UAT 1/10/09 12-3PM Subject: Re: Re: Linux Administration - Users

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2009-01-02 Thread Stephen
Security Forensics @ UAT 1/10/09 12-3PM Subject: Re: Re: Linux Administration - Users in (any) database howto/why... From: craigwh...@azapple.com To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 09:36:32 -0700 On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 11:24 -0500, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote

RE: ****Re: Linux Administration - Users in (any) database howto/why...

2009-01-02 Thread Lisa Kachold
Department of Economic Security Forensics @ UAT 1/10/09 12-3PM Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 08:47:23 -0700 From: cryptwo...@gmail.com To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Re: Linux Administration - Users in (any) database howto/why... ok now here is a question. how well

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2009-01-02 Thread Stephen
@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Re: Linux Administration - Users in (any) database howto/why... ok now here is a question. how well would this concept play with something like open-likewise and domain authentication? how closely do you think we could merge the two user databases in this case

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2009-01-02 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 15:55 +, Lisa Kachold wrote: AD takes care of the Windows side completely to include Domain Admin, etc. OpenLDAP is trivial to configure for this. open-likewise simply puts it's own framework over it all. I would build up test systems to see what you like, but

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2009-01-02 Thread Stephen
open-LikeWise will not synchronise as far as i can tell, its more of a authentication tool, or the free one is. but if your on a Linux machine and need to auth against a Domain its handy. It also appears that the next version of freeIPA (2.0) is looking to make it less fedora only. which will be

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2009-01-02 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 10:07 -0700, Stephen wrote: open-LikeWise will not synchronise as far as i can tell, its more of a authentication tool, or the free one is. but if your on a Linux machine and need to auth against a Domain its handy. It also appears that the next version of freeIPA (2.0)

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2009-01-02 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 13:09 -0700, Joe wrote: Craig, Thanks for the info on FreeIPA. It sounds like you have quite a bit of experience with LDAP. Maybe you can answer some questions. In the past when I tried to configure LDAP with nsswitch, I remember that I had to put the Admin

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2009-01-02 Thread Lisa Kachold
Security Forensics @ UAT 1/10/09 12-3 Subject: Re: Re: Linux Administration - Users in (any) database howto/why... From: craigwh...@azapple.com To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 13:24:20 -0700 On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 13:09 -0700, Joe wrote: Craig

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2009-01-02 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 16:40 -0700, Joe wrote: Good point on TLS. The /etc/ldap.secret is where I had the problem. If you put that file on an end users machine, wouldn't they be able to boot into single user mode or sudo and read that file? Doesn't that file provide the keys to the kingdom?

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2009-01-02 Thread Lisa Kachold
2009 16:40:20 -0700 From: j...@nationnet.com To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Re: Linux Administration - Users in (any)database howto/why... Good point on TLS. The /etc/ldap.secret is where I had the problem. If you put that file on an end users machine

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2009-01-02 Thread Lisa Kachold
. www.Obnosis.com | http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:obnosis | (503)754-4452 January PLUG HackFest = Kristy Westphal, AZ Department of Economic Security Forensics @ UAT 1/10/09 12-3PM Subject: Re: Re: Re: Linux Administration - Users in (any) database howto/why... From

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2009-01-02 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 02:48 +, Lisa Kachold wrote: Here's the definitive guide for hammering down LDAP, noting defaults for use, etc. http://eatingsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/openldap-security.html I'd hardly call it a definitive guide to hammering down LDAP when there are only 2

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2009-01-02 Thread Joe
Sorry Craig, I had to jump in again. smbpasswd -w drives you crazy? From the Eating Security page, this is what I was talking about eariler: Another file with a plain text password is /etc/ldap.secret. This file must contain the rootdn password in plain text, but is again somewhat mitigated

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2009-01-02 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 21:08 -0700, Joe wrote: Sorry Craig, I had to jump in again. smbpasswd -w drives you crazy? From the Eating Security page, this is what I was talking about eariler: Another file with a plain text password is /etc/ldap.secret. This file must contain the rootdn password

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2009-01-02 Thread Ed
@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Re: Linux Administration - Users in (any) database howto/why... Good point on TLS. The /etc/ldap.secret is where I had the problem. If you put that file on an end users machine, wouldn't they be able to boot into single user mode or sudo and read

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2009-01-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 09:01 -0700, Joe wrote: That is a great question. First, let me say I don't have an answer. The reason I'm responding is that Postgres scares me. The reason it scares me is that I have had a number of times when upgrading postgres, the DB files were not compatible with

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2009-01-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 11:24 -0500, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: I think that LDAP is overkill for my application. My users will authenticate only in/for one server, and probably to either update a WEB site or drop/retrieve e-mail. Some users may have WEB sites, some users may have