Acerto Ldap Centos 6

Acerto na configuração do LDAP do CENTOS 6.0

I have gotten a few people asking about the problems they are having with their LDAP configurations on RHEL 6 based on my previous post on this topic. I must say it’s a quite a pain having come from RHEL 5.

To summarise,

1. Take out sssd if you don’t need offline authentication

2. RHEL 6 defaults to TLS for LDAP authentication. Disable this behaviour by changing FORCELEGACY=YES in /etc/sysconfig/authconfig if you really do not want TLS between your client and the LDAP server.

3. nslcd is a neccesary component for LDAP authentication. Install nss_pam_ldapd nss-pam-ldapd and make sure nslcd is running.

Hope this helps anyone who is stuck with this issue.

• Edited – 20110805: Thanks to Frank M for pointing out the typo in the nss-pam-ldapd package.