Nameserver Switch for FreeBSD - implementing RFC2307

After reading all this, you'll be able to empty your /etc/passwd and get user data from an LDAP server. Other files like /etc/group and /etc/services might follow if you join the team and hack the rest.

Before you start check out these links:

• OpenLDAP home page
  Setup a socalled "Standalone LDAP server", then under some root-dn create a record like the following:

     uid=sascha, dc=free,dc=de
     description=No Plan!
     objectclass=posixAccount
     gecos=Sascha Gresk
     userpassword={crypt}sdsPTg5qBDYTg
     uid=sascha
     gidnumber=0
     gidnumber=1001
     gidnumber=1111
     gidnumber=69
     gidnumber=504
     loginshell=/bin/csh
     homedirectory=/home/sascha
     uidnumber=503
     cn=Sascha Gresk
     

• FreeBSD Handbook
  Teach yourself how to build a complete new FreeBSD world - a few tools and programs have to be compiled to contain the nameserver-switch.

• Thanks to PADL Software Pty Ltd you will find source code for a LDAP Nameservice Switch Library at http://www.padl.com/nss_ldap.html. Any other implementation might work as well - but this is the one I am using ...
  Here is the makefile I am using: Makefile.freebsd.

     So this is what I did:   
     >fetch ftp://ftp.padl.com/pub/nss_ldap.tgz
     >md5 nss_ldap.tgz
     MD5 (nss_ldap.tgz) = e87bc89fc4b36bed22c71814153f38ef
     >tar xvzf nss_ldap.tgz
     cd nss_ldap-113
     fetch http://www.free.de/homes/sascha/Makefile.freebsd
     ln -s Makefile.freebsd Makefile
     make depend
     make 
     make install
     

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