Re: LDAP and ProFtpd

[Benjamin J. <Ben...@Re...>]

If you are using Linux or Solaris, you can use nss_ldap and pam_ldap from:

http://www.padl.com/nss_ldap.html

These give "complete" LDAP integration at the OS level. The application does
need to support PAM however.

Ben


Shain Miley wrote:

> Hi,
> I am thinking of setting up proftpd to authenticate with our ldap
> server.  I have been testing it out and I am able to authenticate the
> username and password.  The next step is to be able to pull the account
> information (home directory, shell, etc) from the server as well.  I
> have been looking around and it looks like I need to set up the account
> stuff in posix form.  I am not too sure about posix.  Can anyone tell me
> how I should go about doing doing this?  I see that the user objectclass
> is set to top now.  Can users have multiple objectclasses?  Right now
> the users do not have entries for homeDirectory of loginShell...do I
> need to completely redo the entries in the ldap server or can can I
> modify the existing one?  Thanks for any help of URLs that anyone can
> provide me with.
> Shain