If there are no local user accounts, how do you specify who is "allowed" access? Is the LDAP-Howto the right howto for this?
Thanks, James On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 10:40, Jason Staudenmayer wrote: > There would be no local accounts. All user info is in the LDAP database. > The samba auths against a NT PDC. > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Pifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 10:38 AM > To: RedHat List > Subject: RE: LDAP on Redhat. > > > So the user would have an account on the linux machine. When they try to > login, redhat would look to ldap to check authentication? > > If so, that sounds pretty good, but what about other modules, such as > Samba? Since it uses smbpasswd, it would probably not use LDAP. Is that > correct? > > Thanks, > James > > On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 10:16, Jason Staudenmayer wrote: > > I believe it would auth users against said LDAP server and not the > > passwd/shadow files > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: James Pifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 10:07 AM > > To: RedHat List > > Subject: LDAP on Redhat. > > > > > > When you're given the option during the Redhat install to select LDAP > > and specify an LDAP server, what does that really do? I know what LDAP > > is, but when you enable it in this fashion, what does it do for Linux? > > > > I looked over the LDAP howto, but I'm not sure that was referring to > > LDAP in the same way. It seemed like it was referring more to running an > > LDAP server not enabling LDAP support. > > > > Is there another howto I should be referring to? > > > > Thanks, > > James > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
