Setup Ubuntu as an Open Directory Client?

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Setup Ubuntu as an Open Directory Client?

Does anyone know how to "bind" an ubuntu machine to a 10.9 server open directory. Basically, I wan't to use this box as a fileserver, and giver my users access to it using their open directory credentials

The only solution I could find searching is this:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OSXLDAPClientAuthentication

I followed each step to the T and it isn't working.

Any ideas?

OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Apr 6, 2014 9:09 PM

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Apr 7, 2014 5:53 AM in response to codylample

If you have not already done so you will probably need to install additional software in to Ubuntu to let it speak to LDAP, try

sudo apt-get install ldap-utils libpam-ldap libnss-ldap

I can confirm I have managed to get an Ubuntu machine to authenticate via LDAP to Open Directory, as far as Ubuntu will be concerned it is just an LDAP server. Some other things to check.

It is best to tell Ubuntu to use LDAP v3
The DN for a typical Open Directory setup will be something like dc=servername,dc=domain,dc=com
Either configure Ubuntu to do a tree-search or use the cn=users,dc=servername,dc=domain,dc=com branch to look for users in

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