I no longer use Puppet actively and this software has not been maintained for some time.
Configure a system to use LDAP for user authentication, authorisation and related name resolution.
Currently only tested on Redhat-like systems.
Include the pamldap module in your puppet configuration:
include pamldap
and add required hiera configuration - for example:
pamldap::base_dn: 'dc=example,dc=com'
pamldap::uris: [ 'ldap://10.7.96.13', 'ldap://10.7.96.14' ]
It can also be used as a parameterised class - for example:
class { 'pamldap':
base_dn => 'dc=example,dc=com',
uris => [ 'ldap://10.7.96.13', 'ldap://10.7.96.14' ],
}
base_dn: LDAP base distinguished name used in user and group entries
uris: LDAP server connection details - a list of URIs in the format ldap:://[hostname]
Create userinfo and groupinfo aliases in ~/.bashrc:
$ vim ~/.bashrc
alias userinfo='perl -le "print join(qw(:),getpwnam(\$_)) foreach @ARGV"'
alias groupinfo='perl -le "print join(qw(:),getgrnam(\$_)) foreach @ARGV"'
Then you can query user and group information from LDAP that you would normally see in /etc/passwd and /etc/group:
$ groupinfo users
users:x:100:
$ userinfo kburdis fbloggs
kburdis:x:500:100:::Keith Burdis:/home/kburdis:/bin/bash
fbloggs:x:501:100:::Fred Bloggs:/home/kburdis:/bin/bash
When run as root you will see information from LDAP that would normally be in /etc/shadow:
# userinfo kburdis fbloggs
kburdis:$6$oniRviiF...:500:100:::Keith Burdis:/home/kburdis:/bin/bash
fbloggs:$7$OghzqIlp...:501:100:::Fred Bloggs:/home/fbloggs:/bin/bash
# groupinfo sysadmins users
sysadmins:x:514:kburdis
users:x:100:
Originally based on detailed documentation and setup by my colleague Neil McBennett. He did all the hard work, I just puppetised it.
Ubuntu support contributed by Markus Heberling (tisoft). I changed things though so if it doesn't work blame me.