9.5. LDAP authentication

If you have LDAP server configured in your network and wish Aptus clients authenticate against the existing LDAP server, you can setup the LDAP client to authenticate against external LDAP servers. You can simply configure LDAP clients on the Aptus server, and this will automatically made all clients to follow the configurations at the server without having to configure them one by one. If you want to separate configurations and only want the clients to use LDAP, you should move those configuration files to /var/opt/aptus/mygroup/groupfs/etc instead of the server's /etc directory. You may also want to turn on the NSCD service of Aptus clients by going to Aptus Configurator -> Group configuration -> Startup services -> nscd and turn on at run level 3 and 5 . For more information about LDAP configuration, please see the LDAP-HOWTO and the LDAP-Implementation-HOWTO which describe how to setup a Linux machine to be a LDAP client.