Authenticating clients against organization’s ldap

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Hi,

I’m quite new with ldap so not sure if the right wordings are used here.

This is my situation:

-Library environment with a system that contains library card users (unique barcode and pin # per user)
-Setting up public Mac Leopard iMacs and need to allow users to use their library barcode and pin # to authenticate.
-LDAP server is up and running for other services and authenticating against for other services.
-Want to use this LDAP on the clients so that users can authenticate against.
-LDAP on a separate subnet in the organization
-Firewall in our organization has been configured to allow our subnet to communicate with LDAP.

This is the current setup:

-Clients running OSX10.5.6, patched and running ok.
-Clients also have an OD configured so that our “staff” users can login.
-OD service running on the Mac Server for our “staff” users. This is running fine when a staff wants to login.

This is what I have done so far:

-Added the LDAP server on a client through Directory Utility.
-Put in the proper settings and now I have 2 directory servers listed with GREEN light and saying server is responding normally.
-Tested look up of users from client…
– In terminal I used the id command: “id ”
– I successfully get the user info for the user on the OD server with no problems

– I then check a user that is suppose to be on the LDAP: “id ”
– Response I get is “no such user”

Questoins:

-What now? I have setup the directory utility to use settings from server
-Plugged in the proper base search info
-Everything on a static IP network (don’t think this matters though).

Any feedback would be great. Thanks in advance.

-Garry

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MacTroll wrote:

What flavor is the other LDAP server?

The ldap server should be a linux box but will need to confirm this from the sys admin when back to work Monday… stay tuned…

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Here’s some info on the LDAP server that I am trying to get working.

-OpenLDAP 2.4
-RH Linux AS3
-LDAP Protocol V3

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