Re: how to make solaris 8 authenticate to an external openldap server

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 03:08 AM 6/28/2004, Lara Adianto wrote:
>Btw, I forgot to mention that my main concern is on
>user login authentication. Hence, a user who wants to
>login to solaris 8 will be authenticated by external
>ldap server. How can I achieve this ?

This topic, and these questions, seems not specific
to OpenLDAP Software.  Seems you redirect this to a
forum about Solaris user authentication.

Kurt


>--- Lara Adianto <m1r4cle_26@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> hello,
>> 
>> I would like to make solaris 8 to authenticate to an
>> external openldap server installed in redhat linux.
>> The authentication should be secured, probably using
>> TLS/SSL...
>> 
>> Has anybody achieved this ? 
>> I've read this:
>>
>http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200209/msg00588.html,
>> 
>> but I'm getting confused though.
>> 
>> Can I achieve my objective using ldap native client
>> or
>> should I use the pam_ldap from PADL ? 
>> I read somewhere that ldap native client can't use
>> SSL.  Is this true ?
>> 
>> I've experimented on ldap native client, creating
>> /var/ldap/ldap_client_file, specifying my ldap
>> server
>> and /var/ldap/ldap_client_cred. But when I do
>> ldapsearch, I still need to specify the ldap server
>> using -h option, otherwise I'll get can't contact
>> ldap
>> server. Why ?
>> 
>> regards,
>> lara
>> 
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