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I want to set up a central user management for my network.
I read about two technologies to realize this:
NIS/YP and OpenLDAP with Kerberos.
My Question was what are the pros and contras of both ways?
When I have a working LDAP Server with BDB Backend what else is needed to "get" a central user management?
Regards
NIS/YP is easier to setup than LDAP with Kerberos. LDAP let's you integrate with other software, letting you use it for more than just your user details (think company phone book, things like that). Kerberos is more secure than NIS/YP by design as it assumes a hostile network (but trusted hosts). Basically, it depends on what your requirements are.
Ok Thanks for the information
I think then I will go as fast as possible over to OpenLDAP/Kerberos and skip the easier/older one.
Could you also give me Support with OpenLDAP?
I have installed OpenLDAP via Ports on a latest FreeBSD Jail,
slapd
is already running.
As next step I would add
base.ldif
and
db.ldif
(two configuration files in
.ldif
format) to
slapd
. But till now I didn't succeed:
ldapadd -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi://localhost -f db.ldif
SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started
ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Unknown authentication method (-6)
additional info: SASL(-4): no mechanism available:
[root@openldap /]# ldapadd -x -D cn=admin,dc=local,dc=de -W -f /usr/local/etc/openldap/base.ldif
Enter LDAP Password:
ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)
[root@openldap /]# ldapadd -Y EXTERNAL -x cn=admin,dc=local,dc=de -f /usr/local/etc/openldap/base.ldif
ldapadd: incompatible with previous authentication choice
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