[K12OSN] Authenticating existing users with K12Linux

[Rob Owens]

SME Server uses LDAP for its user authentication (as far as I understand it), so you should be able to authenticate K12Linux off of it.  However, I set it up and tested it a couple weeks back and I couldn't get my Debian machine to authenticate.  I'm not sure if I was doing something wrong, or if SME's LDAP configuration is different than other OpenLDAP systems I've set up in the past.

-Rob

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 08:19:59PM -0500, J G wrote:
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> We have an existing SME Server (CentOS 7.4 based) that students use for authentication and file storage for their Windows machines. 
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> We're about to install K12Linux on another server and ideally would like to authenticate against the existing server as well as use the existing home directories there as well.
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> Searching the archives and wikis I found some information but don't know if it still applies to the new K12Linux. Is there a K12Linux how-to or install instructions somewhere that would help us or will it be self-explanatory once we do the install? Do we need to maintain indentical users/passwords on both machines or can we sync both together? Is there a better distribution than SME for doing this?
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> Thanks in advance for any help or advice. 
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