[tech] manbo, ldap, stuff

[Davyd Madeley]

On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 22:32 +0900, James Andrewartha wrote:

> So it all seems to be working, but some further testing will be required 
> before we switch it live on all systems. Passwords currently remain split, 
> but if they are changed from windows both will change, and using smbpasswd 
> will also change both. passwd should work on trusted machines but will 
> only change the unix password.

So passwd can't be configured to change someone's authentication details
in LDAP, or not until we switch over to LDAP as our auth mechanism top
to bottom?

> Also, Solaris comes with a nis/ldap connector, which could be used with 
> morwong as a slave to provide backup auth if manbo goes down (although I 
> will admit while this is somewhat crackful, it's easier than setting up 
> replication, at least initially.) 
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4556/6maort2to?a=view

By replication, I assume you refer to LDAP replication?

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