nss_ldap - working or not, and how to?

[jcaldwell at ymcastlouis.org]

Specifically what I'm looking for is just User/Group stuff. I'm setting up 
a distributed Samba network - actually migrating from Novell Netware to 
FreeBSD/Samba. It seems like the only sane way to approach that (with 22 
servers, scattered across 20 locations) is with nss_ldap. I'll check out 
pam_ldap as well - thanks for the pointer.

Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote on 09/21/2004 01:57:40 PM:

> From: jcaldwell at ymcastlouis.org <jcaldwell at ymcastlouis.org>
> > Nope - that doesn't do the trick. I believe I saw something about 
having to
> > recompile BIND, but there weren't any details. 
> >
> If we had a few more details as to what your setting up.
> 
> For logins and user/group permissions you need nss_ldap & pam_ldap 
installed.
> 
> As for BIND, you need to install the dns/bind9-dlz.