Cluster: New BobSCEd LDAP Log

LDAP

• Head node: yum installed openldap-servers.x86_64
  • Edited /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
  • Ran slappasswd to set the ldap root password
  • Follow quickstart guide: http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/quickstart.html
• Workers and head node need to auth from it:
  • yum install openldap-clients nss_ldap
  • http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-ldap-pam.html
  • Run authconfig-tui and enable LDAP

Important Commands

Commands always need to be run with -x.

• -D are the credentials to bind with
• -W means prompt for password

• Getting into ldapmodify:= (see Sun's docs on ldapmodify)

ldapmodify -x -D "cn=admin,dc=bobsced,dc=loc" -W

LDAP Base

dn: ou=people,dc=bobsced,dc=loc
ou: people
objectClass: top
objectClass: organizationalUnit

dn: ou=group,dc=bobsced,dc=loc
ou: group
objectClass: top
objectClass: organizationalUnit

dn: cn=admins,ou=group,dc=bobsced,dc=loc
objectClass: posixGroup
cn: admins
gidNumber: 1000
memberUid: ...

dn: cn=users,ou=group,dc=bobsced,dc=loc
objectClass: posixGroup
cn: users
gidNumber: 115
memberUid: ...

A user looks like this:

dn: uid=kwanous,ou=people,dc=bobsced,dc=loc
uid: kwanous
cn: kwanous
objectClass: account
objectClass: posixAccount
objectClass: shadowAccount
shadowMax: 99999
shadowWarning: 7
loginShell: /bin/bash
uidNumber: 1273
gidNumber: 115
homeDirectory: /cluster/home/kwanous
gecos: kwanous,,