For a while now I’ve been meaning to write an article on how to easily set up your Linux boxes to authenticate against an Active Directory setup. I’ve had this working in production environments for a while now, having cobbled together bits and pieces from various websites, blogs, and trial and error experimentation.
First of [...]
Continue reading about Linux to Active Directory Authentication (Part 1)
Today I finally managed to get RHEL5 boxes authenticating against Active Directory using secure LDAP. I had no problem getting RHEL4 boxes to do it, or RHEL5 boxes without TLS, but I figured out what the problem was with RHEL5. In my /etc/ldap.conf I had a line:
ssl yes
Which enabled Secure LDAP in RHEL4. In RHEL5 [...]