One other command you may need to look at is authconfig...which will help set up all the config files necessary to authenticate using ldap and other methods authconfig --help and man authconfig for assistance On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 20:40 -0800, Jyotishmaan Ray wrote: > > > Dear All Openldap USERS on Fedora-Linux, > > This is Jyotishmaan Ray, from Silchar, India. > > I have been working on migration of users from fedora-linux server to > LDAP server. Of late after i have migrated the all users, as per the > adminitration guide of openldap sofware, i realised that i have done > something wrong, because of which the authentication is not > successfully happening. > > Now please those openldap experts who are on linux-fedora platform > please kindly pay attention to my questions:- > > > 1) Is it necessary to execute the following steps :- > > > Now you are ready to migrate the data (actually it works even without > the export command): > > export ETC_SHADOW=/etc/shadow > ./migrate_base.pl > /tmp/base.ldif > ./migrate_group.pl /etc/group /tmp/group.ldif > ./migrate_hosts.pl /etc/hosts /tmp/hosts.ldif > ./migrate_passwd.pl /etc/passwd /tmp/passwd.ldif > > > Now we have the data in the format understood by LDAP server. Please > open one the files with text editor to get used to the syntax. After > that we can add the data from ldifs. > > ldapadd -D "cn=Manager,dc=domain,dc=com" -W -f /tmp/base.ldif > > ldapadd -D "cn=Manager,dc=domain,dc=com" -W -f /tmp/group.ldif > > ldapadd -D "cn=Manager,dc=domain,dc=com" -W -f /tmp/passwd.ldif > > ldapadd -D "cn=Manager,dc=domain,dc=com" -W -f /tmp/hosts.ldif > > > > However, i have not performed all the above steps except for the > addition of users!! > > > > As of now, when i finger the users, it shows fine. But when i try to > log ion to the server machine using ssh localhost.localdomain. -l xyx, > > it asks me the password twice one trial after another and susequently > throwing the message:- > > > > [root@authdns bin]# ssh authdns.nits.ac.in -l jmaan > jmaan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx's password: > Permission denied, please try again. > jmaan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx's password: > Permission denied, please try again. > jmaan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx's password: > Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password). > > > [root@authdns bin]# > > > > > > > After seaching on the google.co.in, i have changed the default > permission of the /dev/tty (666) to 777. > > > > Still it is not successfully working with ssh. I just wanted to make > it sure that i could log in with user locally, to my server. However, > the /etc/passwd file does not shows the passwd field of the users as > 'x' but rather as '*'. > > > > > To check this i have tried using the command, > > > > getent passwd|grep user > > > > it worked fine. > > > > Please tell me it is because i have not performed the first few steps > of ldapadd of base.ldif, hosts.ldif, group.ldif to the ldap server > that, its not working. > > > > I have also worked with the command:- > > > pwconv > > > > to generate the new shadow file from the /etc/passwd file. > > > > Please help!! > > With Thanks and Regards, > Jyotishmaan Ray > Moderator Of Paradise Groups > http://yahoogroups.com/group/Spirituality-Paradise > > Are You Spiritually Aware !!! Are You Enjoying Yourself !!! See > What All You Had Been Missing !!!! > Please Join Immediately By Sending A Blank Mail @ > Spirituality-Paradise-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. > Try it now. > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
