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Wasted some time this week converting my server to LDAP directories and renumbering UIDs/GIDs to the “Debian numbering ranges” from the RedHat ranges that I have lived with for 7 years – I have a lot of data to migrate over to the new IDs… data is intact.

LDAP is so ugly after you used SQL, and is a bitch to setup, but after a few hours I managed to get it working with PAM and NSS. I will have to document my steps because I had to read ~10 documents on the web to finally get things working – the Debian packages do not do all the work for you in this case.

I still don’t have my desktops setup the way I want, but the vservers can feed from LDAP for user IDs (for ssh logins and lookup when you do things like ls -l or id). And there is always the issue of what is to be done with the mobile machine… I think I will just use ssh-fs (via fuse) and not worry about having a common .

Stay tuned for further details :)