Kolab's LDAP to authenticate sessions

[Alexandre Boeglin]

Le mercredi 16 Juin 2004 09:27, David Schneider a écrit :
> your solution looks promising, but i have no experience with
> mandrake. i'm running kolab on suse 9.0, binary installation.
> my kolab server is already in productive use and running fine,
> so i'm careful with any changes. do you think this is possible
> to use it for my system? maybe any recommendations?

The major difference between SuSE and Mandrake might be the way they 
handle pam.d config files, here, so you may need to modify them 
accordingly...

Apart from that, I see no reason now why it shouldn't work, but I 
actually didn't play intensively with Kolab... So, maybe you should 
first replicate your Kolab setup on a test server, and then test my 
solution on it before trying it on the actual server.

> and just to get this right, the line
> 	"urpmi kolab-server drakwizard"
> is the installation of kolab on mandrake using urpmi, not a step
> necessary for using the kolab ldap to store and authenticate users?

Err, I'm afraid I didn't understood what you meant, so maybe this won't 
answer, but here is it :

the kolab-server package is the only kolab related package in Mandrake 
10.0. So, installing it is the Mandrake way of installing Kolab 1.0. 
The drakwizard package is just a configuration helper that supports 
Kolab.

If you only want so use LDAP for pam and Samba authentication, then, you 
don't need Kolab. What I have here, is both Kolab and authentication 
running, with the same LDAP directory structure and entities.

Regards,
Alex