This page is for working out the migration of UCC authentication to LDAP.

Current status: Sun LDAP server on manbo set up, DN is dc=ucc,dc=gu,dc=uwa,dc=edu,dc=au. Server root is /var/mps/serverroot, admin passwords available upon application to [TRS]. /usr/sbin/directoryserver startconsole start the managery console thing.

To Do

• initialize OU entries
• load user data from nis and samba
• New user creation script, run on manbo?, can use either:

  • [http://cpu.sourceforge.net/ cpu] and smbpasswd

  • smbldap-tools.
• Replication?

• Bonus crack - user address book, see (minimally functional) demo at http://mussel.ucc.asn.au/contagged-0.5

User objectClasses

• Structural
  • inetOrgPerson
• Auxiliary
  • sambaSamAccount
  • shadowAccount

Attribute Abuse

Stick dovecot mail_location in preferredDeliveryMethod

Useful URLs

http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-March/101579.html BR http://www.unav.es/cti/ldap-smb/smb-ldap-3-howto.html BR http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html BR http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/passdb.html

Client configuration

• libnss-ldap
  • nss_base_passwd ou=People,dc=ucc,dc=gu,dc=uwa,dc=edu,dc=au
  • and for hosts with samba: nss_base_passwd ou=Computers,dc=ucc,dc=gu,dc=uwa,dc=edu,dc=au
• libpam-ldap