Sudoers in LDAP
In addition to the standard sudoers file, sudo may be configured via LDAP. This can be especially useful for synchronizing sudoers in a large, distributed environment. You need to have LDAP server and client...
Tagged: LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
Linux LDAP autofs client configuration
There is a plenty of Linux distributions, so there is not my point to describe how to configure autofs in every one of them. This description is based on RedHat/CentOS, but it can be...
Solaris LDAP autofs client configuration
Last time I wrote about autofs configuration on LDAP server, now it is time to configure autofs client in Solaris. I assume that in DUAConfigProfile, objectClasses and attributes are already defined. You can check...
Autofs in LDAP configuration – for Linux and Solaris
If you have LDAP server as user repository it is also good to have NFS server to store their home directories. To avoid autofs map configuration on every host, you can use LDAP service...
Linux LDAP client configuration
The simplest way to configure LDAP client in Linux is to use some kind of tool delivered with system. SuSE has yast (yast2), RedHat family has authconfig (authconfig-tui). This should install required packages like:...
Solaris LDAP client configuration
Oracle Solaris has native LDAP support built in OS, so there is no need to install third-party software to configure Solaris to use LDAP as users/groups and other repository. You can use different ways...
LDAP server for Solaris and Linux clients
Few months ago I received a task to set up LDAP authentication for Solaris 10, Solaris 11 and Linux machines in Customer’s infrastructure. As LDAP server was chosen OpenLDAP 2.4.x in Master-Slave configuration with...
Mail system implementation
My experience, which I gained during implementation of different systems shows, that implementation should be done in stages. Then, at each stage you can see if it works, if there are some fields to...
Building mail system
This description is based on my experience, which I gained during mail system implementation on University of Silesia (Katowice/Poland). In the first stage there was about 3 000 of users, now the system is...
OpenDJ – online schema modification
I wrote before about schema conversion to LDIF format and how to add schemas offline by uploading them to config/schema directory in OpenDJ. Now I will describe how to extend schema online, without restart...
