[Ilugc] LDAP + Folder/File permission issue

[Sivanandhan, P.]

On 1/27/06, babu jayapaul <babu_jayapaul at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have configured LDAP for company, All the users can
> able to login. But I could not assign permissions to
> any of the files/directories.
>
> when I use the command chown -r user.group /a/b it is
> giving the error:
> chown: 'user.group': invalid user.
>
> I think the chown trying to refer the user and group
> in /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
>
> Please help me to solve this problem.
>
> Also help how to configure SAMBA PDC + LDAP.
>
> Tahnks in advance.
>
> Babu. J
>

You have to make your Linux system to use LDAP for user and group
information. If you are using Red Hat based distro use authconfig
command or refer your distro's manual on how to do this. for Samba +
LDAP integration refer the following documentation.

http://www.idealx.org/prj/samba/smbldap-howto.en.html


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