OpenLdap Question

[grimm08]

I have just got my Openldap server up and running howerver, I admit I'm a little confused about authenticating a client mechine to the server.

When I create an account on the ldap server, does this mean that the server creates a user account in the /etc/passwd, or somewhere else on the server?

Thanks
Grimm08

[Blitzkraig]

I am not an expert on ldap, however, I believe the account(s) must be defined some where in ldap. Depending on how it's configured it may create a /home directory on the client machine, but it should not create a local account on the client machine.

[grimm08]

After doing some reading, I found that by default a ldap client will look at files(localy) before going to ldap for accounts. This means that an ldpa client can have both directory accounts as well as access to ldap accounts.

So, for any one who finds this post. Ldap will not post to /etc/passwd it accounts/