Inappropriate description of using auth-client-config and libnss-ldap in Ubuntu OpenLDAP Server Documentation
Bug #333437 reported by
georgehu
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Ubuntu Documentation |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Adam Sommer |
Bug Description
In the Ubuntu OpenLDAP Server document, the first line in the session of LDAP Authentication, the author said "the auth-client-config and libnss-ldap packages take the pain out of configuring an Ubuntu client to authenticate using LDAP." I am wondering this can be a misleading statement coz I was thinking of this is a optional package if I was NOT going to configure any Ubuntu client to authenticate using LDAP. In my case, all my client computers are windows XP, I'm configuring LDAP+Samba on Ubuntu. And laterly I found the libnss-ldap is a MUST have component regardless of your client type. If nss-ldap is not configured properly then you can't work out.
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Thanks for reporting this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I guess I'm a little unclear on why the statement is misleading?
You are correct when you say "this is a optional package if I was NOT going to configure any Ubuntu client to authenticate using LDAP". For example you can run OpenLDAP on your server and not configure it to authenticate users to the directory, but configure Ubuntu desktop machines to authenticate using libnss-ldap.
Can you clarify this statement: "And laterly I found the libnss-ldap is a MUST have component regardless of your client type. If nss-ldap is not configured properly then you can't work out."
Does that mean that you had to install libnss-ldap on the server in order to authenticate clients? Because on my servers I do not have libnss-ldap and they are able to authenticate clients just fine.