Re: Authentication Failure In pam_ldap ?

[Jyotishmaan]

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Dear Alex,

Please find the reply of your mail as below:-

In my case all the users have been migrated from  another system, in LDIF format to this LDAP server machine.
Here there arises no question of having a group called "jmaan" as i have not created this group explicitly.
Now the question is, as when the user "jmaan" logs on, he should be authenticated by the LDAP server machine, and then he should be in his home directory, which in my case is now /mnt/fac/jmaan

I could do everything as said before but i could not change the group ownership of "jmaan" to "jmaan".

Can you give some pointers ?

----- Original Message ----
From: Alex Samad <alex@...>
To: pamldap@...
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 2:30:35 AM
Subject: Re: [pamldap] Authentication Failure In pam_ldap ?

first find where is jmaan group defined ? then find out how it was created and
then create the other groups.

on debian I use a package called ldapscripts which has the relevant wrapper
scripts to add users, groups and such

alex

On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 09:03:17PM -0800, Jyotishmaan Ray wrote:

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> No, those groups does nt exist for those users for whom i had not been able to change group ownership with the command chgrp!!
> But then how come the groups exists for the users-"jmaan" and the user-"ldapusr".
> Cause i never created these userid's explicitly using the command :-useradd.
> The users-"jmaan" and "ldapusr" 's profiles were migrated in LDIF format into the ldap server machine.
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> Any comments, would be appreciacted!!
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> On using getent passwd, it shows all the migrated users however on doing getent group, it shows only the "jmaan" and "ldapusr" and not other migrated users . How and why i could  change the group ownership of these directories after creating the /home/jmaan and /home/ldapusr respectively and not for other users??
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> a few lines output of getent group:-
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> jmaan:*:623:
> ldapusr:*:625:
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> ldapusr:x:625:625:ldapusr:/home/ldapusr:/bin/bash
> jmaan:x:623:623:jmaan:/home/jmaan:/bin/bash
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Alex Samad <alex@...>
> To: pamldap@...
> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 1:28:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [pamldap] Authentication Failure In pam_ldap ?
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> does the group exist
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> use getent {passwd|groups} to see what the systems sees
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