Setup LDAP authentication on OES Linux for Apache2

  • Document ID:3304624
  • Creation Date:10-Apr-2007
  • Modified Date:27-Apr-2012
    • Micro Focus Products:
      Open Enterprise Server

Environment

Apache2
Novell Open Enterprise Server
Suse Linux Enterprise Server

Resolution

  1. Go to yast and enable following modules under apache modules:ldap, auth_ldap
  2. Enter following lines to any directory directive that you want to provide with LDAP authenticated access

AuthType Basic
AuthName "protected"
AuthLDAPAuthoritative On
require valid-user
AuthLDAPURL ldap://137.65.62.18:389/o=novell?uid?sub?

This is a basic setup. There are more directives you can use, and more examples listed on apache home page:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_auth_ldap.html

full example:

Alias /test1 "/media/nss/VOL1/test1"

AuthType Basic
AuthName "protected"
AuthLDAPAuthoritative On
AuthLDAPURL ldap://137.65.62.18:389/o=novell?uid?sub?
require valid-user
DirectoryIndex index.html
Options all
Order allow,deny
Allow from all