Monthly Archives: February 2012
Configuring OpenLDAP as a replacement for NIS
It should be an easy task in modern linux environment to use openldap as a central user database for authentication. I try to list out the steps about the implementation. The reference system is base on Slackware 13.37. Some packages may already included in your Linux distribution but not for mine. So, you may skip the installation process and jump to the configuration process.
Slackware & PAM
Building PAM for slackware 13.37. You can feel free to build the library from src, or, you may using the package source in extra/source, which included in the slackware distribution.
openldap building and configuration
Try to config an openldap (2.4.29) as nss backend & pam backend for Linux, NIS replacement, as well as SAMBA PDC.
Everything I know about Linux software raid (mdadm)
I hope this post could help some people when dealing with Linux software RAID (mdadm).