[SSSD-users] Fetching Hosts Entries from OpenLDAP Database

Dmitri Pal dpal at redhat.com
Wed Aug 19 20:58:57 UTC 2015


On 08/19/2015 03:53 PM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 09:49:22PM +0530, Rajnesh Kumar Siwal wrote:
>> Any suggested workaround .
> You can use nss-pam-ldapd just for the hosts database and sssd for the
> rest, you can use different views or different servers altogether for
> public/private views.
>
> btw this is the first time I've heard a request for hosts support in
> sssd, so I don't think it's something that can be expected, unless
> someone steps in and implements the maps.

People usually use DNS for that and it is the recommended way of doing
things.
BTW if you want LDAP managed host entries you can use FreeIPA and it
comes with DNS to solve this issue.


>
>> We are missing a good feature as we do not want to create DNS entries and
>> expose to public.
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Rajnesh Kumar Siwal <
>> rajnesh.siwal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi ,
>>>
>>> We need to fetch the hosts entries from the OpenLDAP Database.
>>> We can use the nslcd, that worlks fine to fetch the hosts entries from the
>>> OpenLDAP.
>>> How do we configure sssd to fetch the same hosts entries from the LDAP
>>> database ?
>>> I am not able to figure out hos to set hosts base variable in sssd.conf
>>> like :
>>>
>>> base hosts ou=hosts,dc=example,dc=com
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>> Rajnesh Kumar Siwal
>>>
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> Rajnesh Kumar Siwal
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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Engineering Director, Identity Management and Platform Security
Red Hat, Inc.



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