OpenLDAP

Guys,

I'm a newbie on Linux. Please bear with my ignorance. I'm currently installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 in one of my test machine (i386). I fully installed it and activated ldap and httpd through its GUI services.

My problem here is I'm trying to configure Apache to have an authentication popup when a user tries to access the site and it would authnticate it through LDAP.

I need even the simples configuration including how to create a user account for LDAP. A friend of mine told me to install Berkeley DB and I already have installed it but don;t know what to do after.

I know there are expert here and I need your help as soon as possible.


Thank you very much.

Clark James

I am going to assume you are running Apache; I will further assume it's in the 2.x branch.

mod_ldap; This Apache module should perform exactly the sort of auth you require.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_ldap.html

Thanks for the quick reply. It helped me alot. I was able to configure it to ask for the username.

My second question is how to create a LDAP Directory (i'm not sure if the term for it is right). What I mean here is how to create a file or something which contains a list of users in which LDAP would refere to. Just like the /etc/passwd file.

Please help.

Thanks.

When you say you're running ldap, that's the server right? No the client?
I would imagine so.

http://www.openldap.org/

There's docs on how to setup a ldap schema.