Good day, folks; today's tutorial walks through installing and configuring an OpenLDAP server along with an NFS exported file system. The LDAP system will contain user identities and credentials which we will use for authenticating users from another linux client. In addition to authentication, the server will also provide storage via an NFS exported filesystem which we will auto-mount on our client for the user's home directory. This tutorial uses Ubuntu 16.04 LTS; however, the concepts are the same for RedHat-based distributions as well.
The outline of this tutorial contains the following sections:
For this tutorial we will create three users in our LDAP directory, Tom, Olive and Kevin; all with the password of 1234567. In addition to these three directory users, we will login with a local account, user, which has sudo permissions on both our server (cls-kvm1) and client (cls-kvm2). For simplicity, any time we are prompted for a password, we will use the same number sequence, one through seven, listed above. You can follow along in the documentation for each lesson which is written to be a copy and paste guide.