SUMMARY: Solaris 6, Solaris 7, Solaris 8 and LDAP...

From: adrian.blount@police.wa.gov.au
Date: Sun Aug 06 2000 - 23:10:00 CDT


Greetings,

Sorry for the delay with posting this summary.

I had two responses to this original question:

>Greetings Sun Managers,
>
>I've got a Solaris 7 box running SunDS 3.1 with a heap of users (6000+) and
>am using SunDS to authenticate these users, no problems there.
>
>I've got a couple of Solaris 6 boxes using the abovementioned Solaris 7 box
>as a NIS master which lets the same users authenticate using the NIS <->
>LDAP stuff that comes with SunDS on the first box, no problems there
either.
>
>I've just set up an Intel Solaris 8 box and am about to set up a SPARC
>Solaris 8 box and want to know how I can get it to look at the first box
>(Solaris 7 w/ SunDS LDAP server) for user authentication/information using
>LDAP but still use DNS for hosts and that sort of thing. I don't want to
>run an LDAP server on the Solaris 8 boxes (well, not yet anyhow) and don't
>want to have the LDAP stuff stored locally on those boxes.
>
>On the Solaris 8 box I I copied my nsswitch.ldap to nsswitch.conf and
>rebooted and got loads of errors about non-existant files and the like. I
>can't find anywhere in the list archive or on docs.sun.com what I need to
do
>to get this working but it sure seems like the sort of thing a few people
>would have done.

Thanks to Casper Dik and Will Cox.

Casper suggested that the solutions lie with the supplied 'ldapclient'
command, partly correct.

Will sent me a .pdf from Sun which explains how to set up both your client
and server to do exactly what I asked. It's a fairly manual process with
lots of editing of your directory server config files which I don't want to
do until I've read through it several times and understand what I'm
potentially breaking :)

If anyone wants the PDF file let me know, if there's enough demand I'll put
it on the web somewhere and post a link to the list.

Thanks again to Casper and Will.

Adrian Blount

Unix Administrator
IMD Systems
Western Australia Police Service

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Adrian Blount

Unix Administrator
IMD Systems
Western Australia Police Service

Work Play
E-mail: adrian.blount@police.wa.gov.au E-mail: adrian@vodafone.net.au
Fax: +61 8 9222 1698 Fax: +61 8 9219
6088
Phone: +61 8 9222 1117 Phone: 0410 641 574

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