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December 14, 2010 10:09 am

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eDirectory Restoration – A Case of Perfect Replication of a Change

You’ve followed all the best practices and documentation. Your eDirectory trees are healthy and replicating with no errors. Time is in synchronization and ndsrepair shows no errors or external references hanging out there. So, what do you do when eDirectory gets a request to remove 20,000 members from a group and replicates the […]

Tags: Backup and Restore, eDirectory

Categories: Enterprise Linux, Technical Solutions

By: brianrbenson

April 22, 2010 4:51 pm

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freeRADIUS 2.1.8 on SLES 10 with eDirectory Integration

INSTALLATION download the bzip tarball from freeradius.org to /usr/src/packages/SOURCE/ unpack the freeradius.spec file from the tarball to /usr/src/packages/SPECS/ run “rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/packages/SPECS/freeradius.spec” and use yast to satisfy any dependencies. Packages can be found in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/ rpm -ivh freeradius-server-libs-2.1.8-0.x86_64.rpm rpm -ivh freeradius-server-2.1.8-0.x86_64.rpm again, use […]

Tags: eDirectory, freeRADIUS

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: palaniappan1

August 18, 2009 3:36 pm

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DHCP – Manual Migration From OpenLDAP to eDirectory on SLES

This article provides information on how to migrate DHCP from OpenLDAP to eDirectory manually on SLES 9 or above, making sure that LDAP based applications do not break. SLES offers eDirectory to be used as an alternate to OpenLDAP, but applications already using LDAP on SLES would break unless there is a provision to migrate […]

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: palaniappan1

August 7, 2009 11:44 am

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YaST – Manual Migration From OpenLDAP to eDirectory on SLES

This AppNote provides information on how to migrate YaST from OpenLDAP to eDirectory manually on SLES 9 or SLES 10, making sure that LDAP based applications do not break. SLES offers eDirectory to be used as an alternate to OpenLDAP. But applications already using LDAP on SLES would break unless there is a provision to […]

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: geoffc

June 11, 2009 2:06 pm

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Troubleshooting pam_ldap Against eDirectory Issues

One of the great uses for a directory service is to point things against it to get identity information. For example, Unix systems can authenticate against a number of different systems. The default is known as 'files', which means use the /etc/passwd to store user names, passwords, and other needed information. There was some added […]

Categories: Open Enterprise Server on SLES, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: sideshow

January 2, 2009 9:58 am

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Unattended eDirectory SLES Script

A colleague and I put this script together to help with our server builds that use cloned DIB sets from an existing tree and require a temporary instance of eDirectory running. Some of the switches were hard to find so I thought I would share it here. Feel free to use this as a template […]

Tags: eDirectory

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: tukaram

August 28, 2008 3:13 pm

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Configuration of pdb_nds in Samba server for NDS authentication

pdb_nds is a back-end LDAP authentication method for Samba server. This back-end module provides authentication to the users to the Novell eDirectory™ server (NDS). The eDirectory server can be configured in /etc/samba/smb.conf as follows to allow Samba server to contact eDirectory for user authentication: passdb backend = NDS_ldapsam:ldaps://192.168.1.5:636 If you have […]

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, Technical Solutions

By: jhhut

July 24, 2008 10:11 am

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Automatic network configuration and eDirectory configuration for bootable VMware images

Overview Prerequisites Installation and Configuration SUSE Linux eDirectory Installation: eDirectory Configuration: Conclusion Overview In many VMware environments, using host-only or nat networking is fine for simple product demonstrations, but other times it would be nice to be able to simulate products (in this case eDirectory) in a 'realistic' network environment. You may also want your […]

Tags: Configuration, eDirectory, VMware

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions, Virtualization

By: mfaris01

April 22, 2008 5:27 pm

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Configuring Linux User Management on non-OES2, SLES 10 Servers

Configuring OES 2 Linux servers for Linux User Management in a normal eDirectory tree is pretty much a no brainer. Configure your Unix Workstation object, enable your groups and users to be LUM enabled and that's pretty much it. But, what about a SLES 10 server that is not running OES2? How can you provide […]

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: oasik

February 20, 2008 10:42 am

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Setting a Hard Limit for the eDirectory Cache on Linux

Problem Two to three weeks after initial installation, you might notice that eDirectory keeps stopping/restarting itself, depending on monitoring and configuration, under a heavy load - for no apparent reason. You might also get a -150 INSUFFICIENT MEMORY error when you try to back up with dsbk or eMBox. This might be because you did […]

Tags: eDirectory, Optimizing

Categories: Enterprise Linux, Technical Solutions