* jonty wrote [02.01.11 16:01]: Hi,
Hi All,
I have been using grml for the last couple of months. I am building a network of about 20 machines, all running grml, and I want them to share a single set of login names and passwords. So I decided to configure OpenLDAP as a service on one machine and configure the other machines to find login+password from this service.
Are you sure grml is the right distribution? It is not meant to be used as a normal desktop system. If you want to run normal Linux Desktops just use a normal Distribution like Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL or Opensuse.
This seems a strange omission from grml. It contains slapd to run the service and several clients such as freeradius-ldap, libnet-ldap-perl, postfix-ldap, and smbldap-tools. So why not libnss-ldap?
I think libnet-ldap-perl is a dependency. Postfix ldap i dont know but we should probably remove it, yes.
I could install libnss-ldap on each client machine. But then I have to repeat those same steps on 20 machines, which makes it 20 times more likely I will make a mistake somewhere.
You can remaster the cd yourselv via grml-live, use the netscript bootoption to download a script from some server and execute it or scripts to run a script from the cd.
I tried "apt-get install libnss-ldap" on a test machine. This started updating libc-bin and installing locales, which seemed a good way of breaking the distro.
Thats the normal way. And its very unlikely that it will break your system.
Ulrich