ldap

Been fighting with freeradius, here are the notes to get it working in Debian
 
In this order
Debian freeradius does not have tls support (which you need)
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-478804.html
http://vuksan.com/linux/dot1x/802-1x-LDAP.html
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/8021X-HOWTO/#confradius
 
So, I have been wanting to do this for almost three years, and I finally got around to getting it working. Pretty cool actually! I guess the pure geek is showing (because I had no real reason to do it, except for the challenge)
 

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It turns out there is a much better way to achiece what I was trying to do (go figure, I was trying to do things the hard way),  libpam-ccreds: see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PamCcredsHowto
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I have been messing around all weekend (on and off) trying to get something to wor with LDAP. I thought I was getting pretty close, and then come to find out what I wanted to do, I had to wsitch to the "new" config. Pretty much, the documentaiton sucks, and here is the best I could find.
https://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/serverguide/C/openldap-server.html