[Speakers] Repeats

Bruce Smith bruce at armintl.com
Thu Sep 30 09:41:43 EDT 2004


> >>>7.) Configuring NSS & PAM
> >>>8.) Setting up permissions
> >>>That would be your rock bottom LDAP installation.  Or does 6 & 7 not
> >>>really fit?  You can certainly run a DSA that doesn't provide the local
> >>>id map.
> >>7 and 8 are probably very helpful examples. Maybe talk about roving
> >>profiles as well.
> > As much as I hate to admit it, I agree with Bob on this one.
> 
> If it is any consolation I read this as you disagreeing with Bob. ;)  He wants
> part I, and you want part II.

Whew, had me worried for a minute!  :-)

> >I'd like to see LDAP part II.  Assume the LDAP server is up and running
> >and the data is loaded in a standard password schema.
> >Now, what do we do with it?  How do we get various services to
> >authenticate to it?  How do we keep all passwords in sync?  How do we
> >maintain it?  How do users lookup email addresses with it?  How can
> >sendmail benefit from it?  Generally, how do we _use_ our LDAP service?
> 
> Ah... so back to the 400 slide version. :)

Whatever works!  :-)

> How about - 
> (a) Using LDAP for service authentication (SASL, Apache, PAM).
> (b) Constructing a directory enabled mail service.
> (c) The care and feeding of an OpenLDAP DSA.
> 
> That looks to be three seperate presentations, in order to do the topic any
> justice.  Would you pick a subset of those three, all three, and in what order
> of preference?

I like all three, in that order.

> I've presented on Bind+SDB/LDAP which is storing DNS information in LDAP.
> 
> I think Samba\PDC has been presented;  using LDAP as the SAM was or has been
> touched on a couple of times.

True.  Feel free to touch on them again if you have time to fill.  :-)

 - BS




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