[Fedora-directory-users] Debian client to FDS howto

[Howard Chu]

> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:45:01 +1200
> From: "Steven Jones" <Steven.Jones at vuw.ac.nz>

> I have written the below, if it is helpful/correct by all means place it
> on FDS wiki.
> 
> 
> Debian client setup
> 
> Important notes
> 
> There would seem to be at least 2 places (if not three) containing
> information for ldap. In order to make Debian 4 work I have deleted 2
> and sym linked. It is possible on patching Debian that these files maybe
> restored and LDAP authentication will no longer work. 

Never symlink the pam/nss_ldap config files with the OpenLDAP libldap config 
file. There's a reason all of these things are in separate config files - they 
each have distinct syntaxes. You don't know what you're doing, and you have no 
guarantees that any particular version of a given library won't barf all over 
the keywords it doesn't recognize.

> There may well be an official method to setup Debian but I have not been
> able to locate one via Google.

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   -- Howard Chu
   Chief Architect, Symas Corp.  http://www.symas.com
   Director, Highland Sun        http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
   Chief Architect, OpenLDAP     http://www.openldap.org/project/