User administration

[Dark_Angel]

Hi,

I'm new to network aministration and not sure how to go about it. I can't find any guides to help me out.

I'm looking to run a gentoo server that will manage user accounts and serve licences.

any advice?

Thanks

[fleed]

What kind of user accounts? On the gentoo server itself only? On nfs shares? ldap? Or do you mean it will be managing a windows network, where most other machines are windows with shares and the like? A bit more detail would help!

[Dark_Angel]

hey, thanks 4 ur reply, ok details, sorry bit of a noob.

I have a group on gentoo computers, that are connected to a windows network via samba. I want to use one of those gentoo machines to manage a accounts, which the the users can log on to on any machine, they'll all have a section on the windows server to keep there files.

[-KuRGaN-]

So you can look for openldap
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[Dark_Angel]

Thanks, I think thats what i needed to know about, I followed the gentoo guide, but I've got stuck,

These are the options I have in my /etc/openldap/slapd.conf

include /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/nis.schema

pidfile /var/run/openldap/slapd.pid
argsfile /var/run/openldap/slapd.args

database ldbm
suffix "dc=linux10,dc=net"
rootdn "cn=Manager,dc=linux10,dc=net.net"
rootpw testpassword
directory /var/lib/openldap-ldbm
index objectClass eq#suffix "dc=linux10,dc=net"


and in /etc/openldap/ldap.conf

BASE dc=linux10,dc=net
URI ldaps://linux10,dc=net:636/
TLS_REQCERT allow

when I run
ldapsearch -D "cn=Manager,dc=linux10,dc=net" -w testpassword

I get

ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server (-1)

and

ldapsearch -D "cn=Manager,dc=linux10,dc=net" -W -d 255

ldap_create
Enter LDAP Password:
ldap_bind
ldap_simple_bind
ldap_sasl_bind
ldap_send_initial_request
ldap_new_connection 1 1 0
ldap_int_open_connection
ldap_connect_to_host: TCP localhost:389
ldap_new_socket: 3
ldap_prepare_socket: 3
ldap_connect_to_host: Trying 127.0.0.1:389
ldap_connect_timeout: fd: 3 tm: -1 async: 0
ldap_close_socket: 3
ldap_perror
ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server (-1)

Which comes up whatever password I put in so I guess the issue is there, and the same if i use password-hash

?

[chris.c.hogan]

[Dark_Angel]

Hiya

Hasn't seemed to have made a difference,

[chris.c.hogan]

Hmm, I should have taken a closer look at that line...