[TriLUG] TriLug classes

[Rick DeNatale]

On 5/20/06, Jason Tower <jason at cerient.net> wrote:
> i've set this up for several clients.  the base is to use samba and ldap
> with the smbldap-tools to tie them together.  the tools are used to
> populate and maintain the user definitions - instead of 'useradd' you
> run 'smbldap-useradd', instead of 'passwd' you run 'smbldap-passwd' and
> so on.  once the ldap db is populated, you can set up samba to lookup
> everything in ldap, do roaming profiles, all that crap.  you can also
> configure pam to use ldap so *nix machines can auth against it.
> combined with mounting /home via nfs, it works very well when dealing
> with multiple servers.  and of course you can set up other services like
> postfix, courier, apache, etc to use ldap auth (or pam).  at one client
> i even have an openvpn server authenticating against pam, which in turn
> points to ldap.
>
> the thing is, it's not trivial to set up, and even a two hour class
> would barely scratch the surface.  but if you're willing invest the time
> to learn the ins and outs of the various pieces it works extremely well.

Perhaps we could structure this as a series of classes, we'd need to
structure it and find volunteers to teach.

Any offers?


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Rick DeNatale

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