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Use LDAP instead of NetInfo on Jaguar
Authored by: robleach on Feb 20, '03 04:10:26PM

First off, I'm a newbie to this kind of sysadmin stuff. I'm not sure if this is what I'm looking for, but it might be, so let me ask a couple questions...

I'm on a network that's behind a firewall. I can ssh in and out of my computer to others on the network, but my account on my machine is different from my account on the network. I can't su to my network account from my machine. Other people on my network can't ssh into my machine unless I set them up a local account. I have disks on the network mounted, but I can't change files on them because I don't belong to the same group. So I always have to ssh over even though I've got a mount that allows me access to the files.

What I want to do is make it so anyone on my network can ssh in and so that I can log into my machine using my network account. Will this procedure enable these things?

Second, some of those last steps appear somewhat vague, for eaxmple: "set up the mapping between DirectoryService and your LDAP schema". I don't know what that means. Could someone post a more detailed set of instructions for less experienced users? I'd greatly appreciate it. (Maybe if I'd tried it, those last steps would make more sense - if that's the case, then please ignore this last comment. I just haven't tried it because I don't know if it'll do what I'm thinking it'll do yet.)

Thanks,
Rob



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