SAC:Setup LDAP Authentication

= Setting up FC4 to use LDAP for login authentication =

Run:

sudo authconfig

Enabled LDAP on first screen like this:

│ User Information        Authentication                         │ │ [ ] Cache Information   [*] Use MD5 Passwords                  │ │ [ ] Use Hesiod          [*] Use Shadow Passwords               │ │ [*] Use LDAP            [*] Use LDAP Authentication            │ │ [ ] Use NIS             [ ] Use Kerberos                       │ │ [ ] Use Winbind         [ ] Use SMB Authentication             │ │                         [ ] Use Winbind Authentication         │ │                         [ ] Local authorization is sufficient  │

Enter LDAP Settings like this:

│         [ ] Use TLS                              │ │ Server: ldap.telascience.org____________________ │ │ Base DN: dc=telascience,dc=org___________________ │

Edit /etc/ldap.conf and change pam_groupdn line to read:

pam_groupdn cn=Shell,ou=Groups,dc=telascience,dc=org

(or possibly cn=Admin for medium security systems)

= Setting up SVN server to use LDAP authentication =

= Setting up Bugzilla to use LDAP Authentication =

Details at http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/tip/html/extraconfig.html#bzldap

It seems that the LDAP entries require an email attribute that bugzilla can use for sending email, but generally speaking this seems like a well supported option for bugzilla. I do wonder if there is an option for users not in LDAP to create accounts in bugzilla for the purpose of submitting bugs. I think this is desirable or even necessary!

= Pointers to good LDAP information =


 * http://ldots.org/ldap - moderately helpful.