Craig Sprout wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Digital Wokan wrote: > > > I've found howto's for setting up OpenLDAP, but nothing specific to > > setting it up for handling login authentications (I noticed the option > > during my last Mandrake install and would like to use it). > > If someone could provide a good link for a step-by-step on setting it up > > and switching the login mechanism over to using that instead of local > > users/passwords, I'd be greatly appreciative. > > I've never done it myself, but you should be able to edit > /etc/nsswitch.conf, and look for the passwd, shadow and groups entries, > then change those from the current order, (files ldap nisplus nis) to > (ldap files ...)
That answers making the switch from the client end, but how do I go about configuring the LDAP server with the necessary user info?
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