[ILUG] system authentication using ldap

[bryan hunt]

Anyone using it ? I've got part of it working ie as root I can chown a file to 
a user who is only defined in ldap but when doing a simple login ( with a 
user who exists in passwd file ) I get  .........

Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.

When I try to log in  as a user who is in the ldap database I just get
a login incorect error message ...  

Here is ldif for the test ldap user .... 

# nsstest, Users, ossidian, ossidian, com
dn: uid=nsstest,ou=Users,o=ossidian,dc=ossidian,dc=com
cn: nsstest
uid: nsstest
uidNumber: 1300
gidNumber: 100
homeDirectory: /home/nsstest
loginShell: /bin/bash
gecos: System User
description: System User
objectClass: top
objectClass: account
objectClass: posixAccount
objectClass: sambaAccount
pwdLastSet: 0
logonTime: 0
logoffTime: 2147483647
kickoffTime: 2147483647
pwdCanChange: 0
pwdMustChange: 2147483647
displayName: System User
acctFlags: [UX]
rid: 3600
primaryGroupID: 1201
homeDrive: U:
smbHome: \\OSSIDIAN-PDC\homes
profilePath: \\OSSIDIAN-PDC\profiles\nsstest
scriptPath: nsstest.cmd
lmPassword: 552902031BEDE9EFAAD3B435B51404EE
ntPassword: 878D8014606CDA29677A44EFA1353FC7
userPassword:: e1NTSEF9OE5WSmtwSkJRRzFCMDM0UUl6ZFl2N1BUd1B3d0w0SHI=

The above is from ldapsearch  One thing that I have noticed is that the 
password for this account is different in the gq ldap browser 
it is {SSHA}8NVJkpJBQG1B034QIzdYv7PTwPwwL4Hr 

This strikes me as odd .... why is this ? 

Any ideas people ?
Anyone else doing this stuff with success ( I've managed to get it working 
nicely with samba though )

--B




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