Bug 76103

Summary:	Gentoo LDAP guide doesn't explain what to do on clients
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Matt Taylor <liverbugg>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) <swift>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	docs-team
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ldap-howto.xml
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Matt Taylor 2004-12-29 18:33:58 UTC

Section 2 begins by telling you to emerge things on the server.  Nothing in the guide mentions clients until before code listing 4.3.  This would indicate that the only step needed on each client is the changes to nsswitch.conf, but this is wrong.  Clients need to have openldap, pam_ldap, and nss_ldap emerged, ldap.conf setup, and the PAM changes before the changes to nsswitch.conf will work.  Basicly all of section 4.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Follow LDAP howto
2. Try to login on a client
3. Fail

Actual Results:  
Loging in on clients didn't work, because they weren't configured to connect to
the server

Expected Results:  
Logged in successfuly

A solution to this problem would be to change "4. Authentication Configuration"
to "4. Client Authentication Configuration" and instruct the user to do those
steps on the clients.  If section 4 is changed into the client config, the
"OpenLDAP permissions" subsection should be split into a seperate section since
it has nothing to do with the client configs, perhaps into section 5.

Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-26 10:58:01 UTC

Thanks for the proposed fix. It's implemented now.