LDAP authentication

We will use an additional CentOS 6.5 server on which we will configure the OpenLDAP client for authentication so that we make use of the central account database that we established on the 389-ds server.

From the client machine, we will need to install the following packages:

  • openldap
  • openldap-client
  • nss-pam-ldapd

This will be managed through the standard yum repositories:

# yum install openldap openldap-clients  nss-pam-ldapd

Once this is installed, we will make one change to the /etc/sysconfig/authconfig file. We will edit the line that reads FORCELEGACY=no to read FORCELEGACY=yes. This change will allow us to use LDAP rather than LDAPS. Although it would be more secure to use LDAPS as the information encrypts data exchange, using ...

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