Jefferson Davis wrote:
So I've read, however, there is very little documentation on implementation, at least that I've been able to find.
There are tons of information about nis, rf2307 and/or rfc207bis. However it is easy to search but often hard to find.
So before you search the web, try using the right docs: openldap admin guide & faq http://http://www.openldap.org/
openldap man pages
openldap test suite ( in source tgz). Yes, read the sources.
the archive of this mailing list
the rfcs http://http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/index
use the latest rfc2307bis rfc draft http://http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-howard-rfc2307bis-02
the docs & man pages for your favorite nss software padls old nss suite arthur de jonngs suite (nss-pam-ldapd) and finaly openldaps nssov contrib modul
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From: "Dieter Klünter" dieter@dkluenter.de To: openldap-technical@openldap.org Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 10:55:58 PM So I've read, however, there is very little documentation on implementation, at least that I've been able to find. Subject: Re: strategy for getting groupOfNames (AD) and posixAccount (Unix) to coexist?
Am Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:14:12 -0800 (PST)
schrieb Jefferson Davis jdavis@standard.k12.ca.us:
This has been beating me like a red-headed stepchild...
In the AD world, groupOfNames is expected (in combination with the member attribute, provides for reverse group resolution, ie users by group membership AND groups by member inclusion).
This can be achieved by overlay memberOf, man slapo-memberof(5).
On the unix side of the fence, groups REQUIRE a gidNumber in order to resolve group membership, using posixGroup structural OC in conjunction with memberUID.
That, using posixGroup structural OC, is true for the quite old and obsolet nis schema.
The rfc2307bis.schema provides auxiliary object classes to solve this. In addition you may use the groupOfNames objectclass.
or the groupOfMembers objectclass from draft-howard-rfc2307bis-02, because this oc supports empty groups and has ordering rules for uidnumber/gidnumber
In attempting to future-proof our ldap services, and to accommodate the AD-Focused nature of commercial products, I'm attempting to get this to all work automatically, ie use the same group setup for both (probably naive and ill-advised?).
Windows groups and unix groups are not the same thing. So, that you have issues with them is quite normal.
But you CANNOT have multiple structural objectclasses in a single entry. So these requirements put group structures in direct opposition of one another.
Only right for nis schema and rf2307 schems, use rfc2307bis (latest version).
Has anyone resolved this successfully, and if so, how? Overlays (which ones, examples)? Schema mods (examples?)
Splitting groups off as unix groups vs windows groups (sync could get ugly) and could run into other issues with respect to file and dir permissions.
I also need to avoid breaking smbldap-tools, which at the moment appears NOT to support the groupofnames model.
Good joke, smbldap-tools was designed for today unsupported samba versions. Use samba-ad and forget smbldap-tools forever.
Building this on CentOS 6, OpenLDAP 2.4.23-34, and migrating from older OpenLDAP version.
Use a recent version of openldap, not this old stuff. If you must use the CentOS 6 release of openldap, this list is not yours.
I'm somewhat open to considering a different LDAP service (389/Apache/OpenDJ) though I've found java to be a resource pig in the extreme, and would prefer to avoid if possible.
Use perls NET::LDAP modul.
If you have this working I would love to see the relevant configuration files.
-Dieter