Linux Native LDAP, and/or FreeIPA support
Posted: 02 Feb 2021, 10:54
Hey!
Digging into the way that LDAP works on the U4-111, it is really just trying to use LDAP to retrieve SAMBA credentials. However, if the SAMBA schema isn't present, any attempts to log in via SSH, Web UI, etc, as an LDAP user fails. It should be a simple enough feature to use the native posixAccount schema information, at least as an option. It might be just wishful thinking, but it would certainly be nice.
Even better would be FreeIPA support, which encompasses both LDAP and Kerberos... when you add those, the filer could actually have a strong NFS v4 solution for Linux.
Digging into the way that LDAP works on the U4-111, it is really just trying to use LDAP to retrieve SAMBA credentials. However, if the SAMBA schema isn't present, any attempts to log in via SSH, Web UI, etc, as an LDAP user fails. It should be a simple enough feature to use the native posixAccount schema information, at least as an option. It might be just wishful thinking, but it would certainly be nice.
Even better would be FreeIPA support, which encompasses both LDAP and Kerberos... when you add those, the filer could actually have a strong NFS v4 solution for Linux.