From the course: Linux System Engineer: Authentication with LDAP and Kerberos

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Configure LDAP authentication graphically

Configure LDAP authentication graphically

From the course: Linux System Engineer: Authentication with LDAP and Kerberos

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Configure LDAP authentication graphically

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- To configure the LDAP client on the GUI, we need to install another package. On a terminal in rhhost2, type in sudo yum install -y authconfig-gtk and hit Enter. Type in your password if prompted. After it's installed, we can close the terminal. Now go to Applications, Sundry, and Authentication. If it prompts you for a password, type it in now. If you ever want to run another GUI from the command line, the name of it is authconfig-gtk. To start configuring, change User Account Database to LDAP. You may get a few error messages here, which is okay for now. Now, change the LDAP Search Base DN to dc=localnet,dc=com. If you get an error message saying that you need to use LDAPS, or use TLS for LDAP authentication, then go to the Authentication Method dropdown menu and select Kerberos, and then put it back to LDAP password. This will allow you to continue with the exercise. We only need to do this for the unencrypted LDAP server setup in this course. Most production LDAP configurations…

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