[ILUG] Moving authentication to LDAP

Mel mel at csn.ul.ie
Thu Jan 31 15:16:04 GMT 2002


On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Martin Feeney wrote:

> Try migrating the passwd file to an ldif.  Edit the produced ldif and
> substitute all instances of {crypt} with {md5}.  Then import that ldif.
>

Tried that already. both with base64 encoding and without. I still get
invalid credentials when I try to bind as a user with the old login
password

> Note you may also need libnss_ldap and change passwd, group and shadow in
> nsswitch.conf to "files ldap [nis [nisplus]]"
>

For just ldapsearch, I shouldn't need it. Once ldapsearch can bind, then I
know pam_ldap will start to work right because I had the nss stuff working
before.

-- 
			Mel





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