Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenLDAP user authentication / autofs integration

[Gareth John]

>>
>> I've recently got my Gentoo systems authenticating users/automount'ing
>> home directories with all of the directory information coming from my
>> openldap server :)
>
> Well done! LDAP is causing me all sorts of grief at the moment.  Do you
> also have global or private address books?
>
> <snip>
>
>> I will attempt to document all that I actually had to do in order to
>> get LDAP authentication/autofs working in case anyone else is
>> interested...
>
> That would be really, really, really good.  A HOWTO or step by step
> would be really appreciated.
>

I will try to get a step-by-step guide done on Sunday - I'm too busy until
then I'm afraid.  How far have you got? My main stalling points were
realising that I needed to patch autofs - you can get the necessary
patches from http://people.redhat.com/~nalin/autofs. These apply to the
current version of autofs. There is also an autofs.schema in
http://people.redhat.com/~nalin/schema which you will need to include in
your ldap configuration schema file thing.

I did hit some other stumbling points - I'll document them as and when I
remember them...

Hope this helps,

Gareth