Thursday May 04, 2006 Ponder This
Thursday May 04, 2006 Sun Ray's with LDAP Authentication
I am really trying to close the gap
between sharing
and not sharing here with the blog. I really struggle with it.
There is a lot I want to share regarding my thoughts on Desktop
Virtualization.
A big area I think we can improve on
regarding sharing, is how we solve things and do things. I feel
it is way to hard to find information even with Google. ThinGuy has
been doing a really good job and I am trying to follow his example
more often. I find it remarkably hard to get cookbooks and white
papers pushed through the system. I suspect customers and partners
are dying for this stuff.
One of the biggest topics I hear
time and time again is authenticating users in a Sun Ray environment
via LDAP. I hear is over and over. I will agree it is not always a
simple task. I have just completed a draft cookbook on this
subject. It covers LDAP Client configuration, What too look out for
if Access Manager is used, Executable Automount Home Directories,
Account Management, Password Aging and a couple other topics.
It
offers an example PAM.conf file and sample automounter script. It is
by no means an exhaustive guide but gets you going in the right
direction. If you are interested in it let me know and I will send it
to you. Possible I will post it here after I have cleaned it up a
little more. It been requested that I expand it to cover IDM and Active Directory which I am looking into.
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Posted by tom on July 03, 2006 at 04:53 PM EDT #
Posted by Warren on July 07, 2006 at 07:04 AM EDT #
Posted by tom on July 25, 2006 at 12:55 AM EDT #
Posted by Roger on July 28, 2006 at 03:30 PM EDT #
Posted by Stotti on September 28, 2006 at 02:40 AM EDT #
Does this draft still available, please drop me a copy
Posted by Bas on November 22, 2007 at 07:43 PM EST #
Hi Warren, I too am struggling with setting up a SunRay svr with LDAP authentication and would be very interested in your write-up. Could you email me your findings? Thanks in advance.
Cindy (cindy.osmon@sun.com)
Posted by Cindy Osmon on February 06, 2008 at 03:46 PM EST #
I am really interested in this topic. I tried to set it up, but without success. I will be very appreciative for any hints. Thanks in advance.
Posted by Miroslav Oravec on March 31, 2008 at 10:36 AM EDT #
Well I see that it's been a little over 2 years since you wrote this. Hopefully the thread and the project has not died; I'd wish that it was completed but something tells me that it's probably still a work in progress.
If you have any sort of information on LDAP directory authentication with SRSS (4) and SunRays I would be very interested in seeing it. I spent forever getting our SRSS server cluster migrated to using LDAP for authentication and thought that with PAM it'd be a simple plugin and the SunRay/gdm combo would be able to authenticate against it to. Unfortunately this is definitely not the case!
Without this setup working we're going to have to go with some serious workarounds that'll push us back months beyond when we wanted to have this infrastructure stabilized and scaleable. I'd appreciate anything you can point me to or toss my way.
Thank you.
Damon Getsman
dgetsman@amirehab.net
Posted by Damon Getsman on May 26, 2008 at 04:21 PM EDT #
Hi Warren,
will the LDAP integration work with Linux's SRSS GDM? If so, will like a copy of your draft write up.
thanks,
James Tan
Posted by James Tan on June 11, 2008 at 12:35 AM EDT #
Warren,
Wow, I would really appreciate a copy of your write up.
Thanks,
Jon Oliver
Posted by Jon Oliver on June 18, 2008 at 04:09 PM EDT #
Hello,
please send me you scripts. I am trying to authenticate user with nis+ and ldap.
thanks
Joachim Graeser
Posted by Joachim Graeser on July 02, 2008 at 10:44 AM EDT #
Hi Warren,
have you tried on 64bi linux? E.g. RHEL 4 x86_64?
I've read "http://www.mail-archive.com/sunray-users@filibeto.org/msg09781.html" and it mentioned no support for 64bit OS/pam modules.
thanks,
James Tan
Posted by James Tan on July 07, 2008 at 06:04 AM EDT #
Hi Warren,
I would really appreciate a copy of your write up, too ...
Many thanks,
Jan Ars
Posted by Jan on August 01, 2008 at 02:55 AM EDT #
Warren,
I have been struggling with sun ray users auth to ldap. Please send me a copy of your cookbook.
Thanks,
Clinton
Posted by Clinton on September 10, 2008 at 04:15 PM EDT #
Hi,
perhaps it's too old... but i really like to have a copy of your cookbook.
Can you send it to me ?
thanks in advance
Johan
Posted by Jo on July 06, 2009 at 12:38 PM EDT #
Warren, I'd love a copy too, if it's still available.
Thanks,
Alex
Posted by Alex on July 07, 2009 at 02:50 PM EDT #
Hi, I'm messing around with SRSS 4 and LDAP at the moment. It would be great to get a copy of your cookbook.
Posted by Sven on August 18, 2009 at 09:05 AM EDT #