Comments on: 389 Directory Server Setup Howto for RHEL/CentOS 5

By: consultant

consultant — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:38:05 +0000

Hi A.Selvakumar,

The file fedora-ds.repo has now been updated, please download it again.

By: A.Selvakumar

A.Selvakumar — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:10:34 +0000

Dear consultant,
when i tried to yum as per you mentioned I got this error

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: fedora-extras

kindly update the repo
Regards
A.Selvakumar

By: Tweety20

Tweety20 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:21:08 +0000

sorry I forgot to tell you that the /var/run/dirsrv has the permissions 777 as you requested.

By: Tweety20

Tweety20 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:20:05 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for this tutorial it is good but I am actually facing a problem. Every time I reach the last step I get the following error:

Creating directory server . . .
Your new DS instance ‘tweety20′ was successfully created.
Creating the configuration directory server . . .
Error: failed to open an LDAP connection to host ‘tweety20.dyndns.org’ port ’389′ as user ‘cn=Directory Manager’. Error: unknown.
Failed to create the configuration directory server
Exiting . . .
Log file is ‘/tmp/setupDetogL.log’

btw, I am using a dyndns account ( I hope it is not a probelm).

I really wish you help me with this.
Thank you.

By: Romario

Romario — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:06:05 +0000

Thank you very much for detailed instructions! It was very helpful for me!

By: manohar

manohar — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:05:50 +0000

hi willa…

finally i could succesfully authenticate linux clients. now my requirement is integrate fds with radius serverd.can u have any idea as how to do that…
Thanks for ur help and support..

Regards
manohar

By: lowerlight

lowerlight — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:44:33 +0000

Thanks Willa,

It works now; the problem was in my testing methodology.

My test was to log into the server(using ldap) from the new client. Which failed because the server was not set up to authenticate w/ldap.

My next query is:
How do I get my client to securely communicate with the fds server. I assume thats where the SSL (./setupssl2.sh /etc/dirsrv/slapd-mail) comes into play).

What changes do I need to make with the client?

Thanks again

By: willa

willa — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:05:18 +0000

hi lowerlight,
if cli commands doesn’t work there is gui method for enabling domain authentication in clients, read and follow post 49 in this page by consultant.

By: lowerlight

lowerlight — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:46:25 +0000

Hi Willa/Manohar,

I have been having similar trouble configuring a linux client to work with the FDS.
My current setup is: server=Centos5 clientmachine=RHEL3u9.

Manohar – did you get your issue fixed

Willa – I’ve followed your suggestions as well, however the “authconfig –enableldap…..”

yields the following bad argument (unknown option) error(s)for
-enableldap
-enablemkhomedir
-ldapserver
-ldapbasedn

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Lowerlight

By: manohar

manohar — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:29:40 +0000

hi willa

thanks for the suggestion..i ll let u know if i ll test succesfully through windows.
but lemme complete the linux part firsrt…

Regards’
manohar