This is a short tutorial describing how to setup a Debian client to use an existing LDAP server for user authentication.
Right, so I assume you're using Debian sarge (aka stable) on the client machines. I'll further suppose that the LDAP server is already configured and running correctly.
On the client side, let's start with the installation of the needed packages:
apt-get install libnss-ldap libpam-ldap
The Debian Configuration screen will ask you about the following things:
- LDAP server - This is just the IP address of the LDAP server you want to use
- Distinguished name of search base - In our example, this is dc=stoop,dc=home
- LDAP version - We're using ...
