Authenticating Mac OSX 10.3.X to Kerberos using LDAP.

[Sensei]

On 2005-07-20 10:55:51 -0500, dpembert at barnard.edu (Darin Pemberton) said:

> Hi,
>       I am trying to allow students in the Mac lab to authenticate at 
> the login prompt to Kerberos using LDAP.  I followed the instructions 
> on various web sites but the only way that I was able to log in with a 
> valid kerberos username and password was if I created a local account 
> with the same short uid name.

There's a big misunderstanding.

Authenticating over Kerberos using LDAP?? Why? Why not using just 
Kerberos? LDAP can be used for information retrieval like home dirs, 
preferred shell, and so on.


> I would like to avoid having to create local accounts and allow any 
> student who has a valid keberos username and password to be able to 
> login. We are not using AFS. Is there another way do this?  I would 
> appreciate any help you can provide. Thank you in advance and I look 
> forward to hearing from you.
> 

Where are the home directories? How can you make a user home withou 
AFS, NFS or other means AND without using local directories?


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