Time for action – connecting FreeRADIUS to LDAP
The following sections will show you how to connect FreeRADIUS to LDAP.
Installing slapd
Ensure slapd is installed on your Linux server. The following table can be used as a guideline to install slapd on each of the three distributions discussed in this book:
|
Distribution |
Command to install slapd LDAP server |
|---|---|
|
CentOS |
yum install openldap-servers openldap-clients
|
|
SUSE |
zypper install openldap2 openldap2-client
|
|
Ubuntu |
sudo apt-get install slapd ldap-utils
|
After slapd is installed we need to configure it.
Configuring slapd
To get slapd up and running we will use a bare minimum slapd.conf file. This is only for demonstration purposes; do not use it in a production environment.
Note
The proper configuration ...
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