[SunHELP] help on LDAP authentication on Solaris 8

[Clarte Everett]

Oh. ok... Thanks guys for replying.
But it seems that still i cannot make it work.
Maybe i didn't mention specific enough question about this.
Here's the situation:
1. i already installed solaris 8 01/01 edition on E220R machine.The
machine is already up and running.
2. I have installed the iPlanet Directory Server 4.12, and same as the
OS, the iDS is already up and running.
3. Beside that, i installed iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0, as you may
already know, iMS uses the iDS for its directory profile.
4. Now, i have a sunray server running on different machine, which is
E220R also and runs solaris 8 01/01 too.
Right now, i have two user profiles, one is on the iDS, and the other is
on unix machine (sunray server).
Both of the user profiles have the same data. Not to mention, i have
NT box, i have to duplicate the user profile on NT box too.
This situation gives me a headache. I want to have unified user
management.

The question:
I want to make my sunray server authenticate using the LDAP on different
machine that runs iPlanet Directory Server.
How to do that? Let me tell you what i have done:
1. i have editted the pam.conf file (but i wasn't sure i have done
correctly), i added modules for ldap here.
2. i have editted the /etc/nsswitch.conf file, add LDAP to passwd,
group, and host section
And then I missed something here, where is the file that contains
information about ldap server?
Do i have to use openLDAP instead of using iPlanet Directory Server?
Just like Adam did in the previous message?
But It's okay if i have to use openLDAP.

Thanks a lot guys. =)

rgds,
cla


From: "Low, Adam" <ALow at Prioritytelecom.com>
To: "'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Subject: RE: [SunHELP] help on LDAP authentication on Solaris 8
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 17:47:53 +0200
Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org

There's also a complete set of documentation available on the iPlanet
website (http://www.iplanet.com/)

I would recommend, unless you really need the iPlanet schema's (i.e. you
use iPlanet messenging server, etc.)
that use OpenLDAP instead, I had many problems with the iPlanet LDAP
server that resulted in my installing
OpenLDAP and porting the schema's across.

The main file name is slapd.conf and is usually placed:
/usr/iplanet/server5/slapd-hostname/config/

Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miroszlav Moricz [mailto:moriczm at excite.com]
> Sent: 13 June 2001 16:58
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] help on LDAP authentication on Solaris 8
>
>
> Hi!
>
> Here's a README file which will help you to setup iPlanet
> Directory Server!
>
> Bye, Miroszlav.
>
>
> On Wed, 30 May 2001 22:35:12 +0700, sunhelp at sunhelp.org wrote:
>
> >  Greetings,
> >
> >  I'm trying to configure all my solaris machine to
> authenticate using
> >  LDAP instead of NIS (with or without +) or file on each servers.
> >  Btw, I'm using iPlanet Directory Server.
> >  So, where do i have to start to configure that?
> >  where is the configuration file? i cannot find it
> anywhere, or it seems
> >  i don't know what the file name is.
> >  Can you help me out here?
> >
> >  Thanks in advance.