Looking for a good NSS/Pam_LDAP/Open LDAP how-to for 5.x

[Jon Adams]

Cezar Fistik wrote:

>Hello Jon,
>
>Sunday, November 21, 2004, 3:16:27 PM, you wrote:
>
>JA> I tried this one:
>JA> http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/FreeBSD/docs/Quick_and_dirty_FreeBSD_5_x_and_nss_ldap_mini-HOWTO.html
>
>JA> and it emphatically does not work, and I followed it to the letter.... I
>JA> think it has something to do with NSS only using SSL/port 636.
>
>JA> so then I tried it with that added.... still no dice
>
>I followed the above howto word by word too and it didn't work from
>the first try. So I made some searches, I think on pamldap or on
>openldap mailing lists, don't remember exactly, and found another
>explanation on how to set things up. As far as I remember, my problem
>was with ldap.conf and nss_ldap.conf files which reside in
>/usr/local/etc/. This files must be identical, so you may symlink
>them, as I did. After that everything started to work, in my case ssh
>through pam_ldap.
>  
>
I found this to be the case also....  I didnt think to symlink them 
though (Doh)

>Unfortunately, my detailed configs are at work, so if you won't find
>anything I'll post them on monday.
>  
>
would greatly appreciate it....  I cant get ssh logins (or any others) 
to work... really frustrating...

Thanks...

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