Lacking a radius server, it is pretty easy to configure winbind/samba to authenticate against an existing Samba domain. There are a number of docs on the poptop homepage, most of them working off the info in this great howto:
http://download.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/lorikeet/trunk/pppd/final- report.pdf On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 09:43 +0200, Ramses van Pinxteren wrote: > Well, let me exactly explain what I want it to do, perhaps you, (or > one of the list members) can point me in the right direction. > > I want to get poptop (VPN) authenticate to an ldap database. so > poptop calls pppd, who in turn connects to LDAP using one way or the > other. Thusfar, I have seen some pages (not working ofcourse) that > people authenticate to a samba server, that connects to ldap. > > Until now I have a samba authentication server (no shares, or > printers) that connects to LDAP, but i don't yet have a radius > server. What is the easiest way to go? Connect to the samba server > (running on the same machine) or setup a radius server? > > And does anyone have a WORKING howto for setting up either one of them? > > Thanks > ramses > > > >You would use the radius plugin to authenticate against a RADIUS server which > >in turn would be configured to authenticate against LDAP. > > > >Ray > > > >On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:14:53AM +0200, Ramses van Pinxteren wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I read on the net somewhere that ldap authentication was done by > >> radius.so plugin?? if this is true, then I hope someone can help me > >> with setting this plugin up? > >> > >> thanks, > >> ramses > >- > >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in > >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
