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Issue 104

From Issue #104
December 2002

Dec 01, 2002  By Craig Swanson and Matt Lung
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Step-by-step instructions for sharing e-mail directories, having a unified login and sharing files in a mixed environment.
Sharing NFS Shares with Samba

Your NFS shares can be shared with Windows clients by running a Samba server on the NFS host. The Samba server must join your FOO SMB domain. Run the following command on the Samba server to join the SMB domain:

smbbpasswd -j [FOO] -r [PDC]
Maintenance

Congratulations! Your LDAP server is up and running with shared e-mail contacts, unified login and shared file storage that is accessible from any client. You probably want to write some administrative utilities to help maintain user and group accounts. Again, we recommend Perl for the task.

Credits

ldapsync.pl originally written by Jody Haynes for Samba-Tng.

Resources

Craig Swanson (craig.swanson@midwest-tool.com) is a part owner of Midwest Tool & Die and has used Linux since 1993. He designed the company network and acts as a mentor for software development and manufacturing engineering.

Matt Lung (matt.lung@midwest-tool.com) works as a Network Engineer at Midwest Tool & Die. He graduated from Purdue University in May, with a degree in Computer Engineering Technology. He configured the company's virtual private network and likes to build robots.

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If i want to use fstab to

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 04:35.

If i want to use fstab to mount homeDirectory. what i must do ?

(HOST ldapserver.foo.com
BASE dc=foo,dc=com)

automount using LDAP

sergeyK's picture
Submitted by sergeyK (not verified) on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 18:47.

Hello guys,

It seems that RedHat automount uses cn property to identify username. Is there any way to change it to uid as authentication does?

Thank you in advance!

/SergeyK

Woo, using Perl for crypt and salting... WHY?

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Submitted by gfolkert on Mon, 01/16/2006 - 09:03.

perl -e "print crypt('passwd','salt_string',);"

Why would one do this, when slappasswd is available? It comes with openldap.

# slappasswd -h
slappasswd: option requires an argument -- h
Usage: slappasswd [options]
-h hash password scheme
-s secret new password
-c format crypt(3) salt format
-u generate RFC2307 values (default)
-v increase verbosity
-T file read file for new password

By default it uses SSHA. Easier and less prone to error.
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