Introduction

This howto is based on my FedoraDirectoryServer howto and I am going to tell you here how you are going to connect Ubuntu clients with Fedora-ds installed in another Ubuntu server. I will stic to the the following example scenario. Change your setting appropriately.

My test setup is like this:

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Installing LDAP Client Packages

We need to install necessary client packages and setup them initially. To install all packages:

  sudo apt-get install libpam-ldap libnss-ldap

During the installtion it will ask few questions and don't worry about them but keep accepting the default settings since we are going to modify them manually later.

Configuring Configuring nsswitch.conf file

The nsswitch.conf file is responsible for switching the authentication order in Linux and we need to setup to accpet LDAP authentication. Tp edit the file:

sudo vi /etc/nsswitch.conf

Then we need change compat with files ldap. Use the following command in vi command mode

%s/compat/files ldap/g

Now your changes will reflect as follows in /etc/nsswitch.conf

...
passwd:         files ldap
group:          files ldap
shadow:         files ldap
...

The order files ldap will look first /etc/passwd file first and then look LDAP for authentication.

Howto created by: ChinthakaDeshapriya.

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