SSSD

As preannounced herethe GNOME Infrastructure switched to a new Account Management System which is reachable at https://account.gnome.org. All the details will follow. Introduction It’s been a while since someone actually touched the underlying authentication infrastructure that powers the GNOME machines. The very first setup was originally configured by Jonathan Blandford (jrb) who configured an OpenLDAP istance with several customized schemas. (pServer fields in the old CVS days, pubAuthorizedKeys and GNOME modules related fields in recent times) [Read More]

I’ve recently spent some time setting up TLS/SSL encryption (SSSD won’t send a password in clear text when an user will try to authenticate against your LDAP server) on an OpenLDAP istance and as you may know the only way for doing that on a RHEL / CentOS environment is dealing with a Mozilla NSS database (which is, in fact, a SQLite database). I’ve been reading all the man pages of the relevant tools available to manipulate Mozilla NSS databases and I thought I would have shared the whole procedure and commands I used to achieve my goal. [Read More]