Re: newbie login question

Hey Mike,

The OpenDJ directory server is another option to look at and it has a Samba Password plugin. I think you'll find setting it up to be much simpler and quick than OpenLDAP.

http://www.forgerock.com/opendj.html
http://opendj.forgerock.org/doc/admin-guide/OpenDJ-Admin-Guide/chap-samba.html

On 01/09/2012 09:46 AM, Mike Edwards wrote:
> Hi Roland,
>
> Thank you for the clarification. I had been working on the Ubuntu
> doc you reference, but there are discrepancies and missing
> information, which led me to LAM. I will get the backend up and
> running and then, with luck, LAM can populate it for me.
>
> My ultimate goal is to have an LDAP server act as the directory for a
> Samba PDC on the same box. I have considered Mandriva Directory
> Server, but I'm not sure about Mandriva's long-term viability. I may
> still go that route if only for ease-of-use.
>
> Thanks again, Mike
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 00:30, Roland Gruber <post@...
> post@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> Am 09.01.2012 03:04, schrieb Mike Edwards:
>> I was under the impression that LAM was a self-contained system
>> that would handle setting up an LDAP server from the ground up.
>> However, the install/setup docs do not say how to set a password
>> for the main login page in order to get to the point where one can
>> add users, etc. Is this account supposed to be set up outside of
>> LAM?
>
> LAM is a webfrontend to manage LDAP servers. Unfortunately, the LDAP
> server setup itself is out of scope. This is something very specific
> for each user.
>
>> I have tried entering a system user account
>> (uid=username,dc=example,dc=com), but that doesn't work. (Some
>> of the posts I've read refer to slapd.conf, but I am running Ubuntu
>> 10.04 and slapd apparently no longer uses that config file.)
>
> Here is a HowTo for OpenLDAP on Ubuntu:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenLDAPServer
>
> On Debian the first LDAP database is configured in
> /etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn=config/olcDatabase={1}bdb.ldif. This also
> contains the line with "olcRootDN:" which specifies your admin DN.
>
>
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