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Q&A / Re: directory authentication

« on: November 02, 2012, 02:37:45 PM »

loaded a fairly vanilla edubuntu 12.04 and experiencing similar issues.  We are a bit different from most, I imagine, in that we are authenticating to OpenLDAP AND automounting homedirs via ldap automount maps AND nfs.

Had a small breakthrough in removing libnss-ldap and replacing with libnss-ldapd

Backing up working version and going to take another stab at ubermix...  Will post specifics back.

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Q&A / Re: Shared netbooks, login successful, blank screen, launcher does lot load

« on: November 02, 2012, 02:08:42 PM »

This appears to be a known issue. 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/at-spi2-core/+bug/870874

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Q&A / Shared netbooks, login successful, blank screen, launcher does lot load

« on: November 01, 2012, 01:53:01 PM »

Any ideas?  I almost wonder if this is a permissions/group membership issue.  I can still login with the default "user" account.

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Q&A / Re: directory authentication

« on: November 01, 2012, 01:40:49 PM »

Well I got the ldap auth and ldap automount working - now launcher will not load.  Any thoughts?  Any issues with automounting NFS homedirs?  Alternative approaches I should look at?

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Q&A / Re: directory authentication

« on: July 10, 2012, 02:18:56 PM »

Directory authentication is definitely do-able with all of the directories you mention, however the limitations and complexities of being tethered to a directory typically outweigh the benefits with mobile devices. For Active directory, there are both free and commercial solutions, as you might expect. OpenLDAP (which we use for all of our servers) is free, of course, and Novell obviously supports Linux authentication to eDirectory (they are a Linux provider, after all). I've authenticated Linux clients using all three mechanisms, and generally believe that the costs outweigh the benefits.

LDAP

LDAP authentication is part of Linux's DNA, so getting set up for this is fairly straightforward. Basic LDAP authentication can be accomplished with the ldap-auth-config and ldap-auth-client packages - see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LDAPClientAuthentication for details. Of course, you'll need to have a properly configured LDAP server at your disposal, which can technically be any LDAP compliant server with the right schema extensions. OpenLDAP is free, of course - you can learn about setting it up at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenLDAPServer. Oreilly also has a really good book titled LDAP System Administration, which was something of an LDAP bible for me when I was first getting started. Using a MacOSX server (which uses OpenLDAP for it's directory) might also be an easy way manage an OpenLDAP server for your Linux clients, although I haven't looked into it personally.

This should work well for us.  We're finally dipping our toe in the water with 2 40-netbook carts, initially for shared usage but could be part of 1:1...

Our existing linux systems all authenticate and automount via OpenLDAP...  From later in the thread it appears that the autoreset could be a good thing for us.