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<appendix id="a_lamdaemon">
<title>Setup for home directory and quota management</title>
<para>Lamdaemon.pl is used to modify quota and home directories on a
remote or local host via SSH (even if homedirs are located on
localhost).</para>
<para>If you want wo use it you have to set up the following things to get
it to work:</para>
<section>
<title>Installation</title>
<para>First of all, you need to install lamdaemon.pl on your remote
server where LAM should manage homedirs and/or quota. This is usually a
different server than the one where LAM is installed. But there is no
problem if it is the same.</para>
<screenshot>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="images/lamdaemonServers.png" />
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
<para></para>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Debian based (e.g. also
Ubuntu)</emphasis></para>
<para>Please install the lamdaemon DEB package on your quota/homedir
server.</para>
<para><emphasis role="bold">RPM based (Fedora, CentOS, Suse,
...)</emphasis></para>
<para>Please install the lamdaemon RPM package on your quota/homedir
server.</para>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Other</emphasis></para>
<para>Please copy lib/lamdaemon.pl from the LAM tar.bz2 package to your
quota/homedir server. The location may be anywhere (e.g. use
/opt/lamdaemon). Please make the lamdaemon.pl script executable.</para>
</section>
<section id="a_lamdaemonConf">
<title>LDAP Account Manager configuration</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Set the remote or local host in the configuration (e.g.
127.0.0.1)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Path to lamdaemon.pl, e.g.
/srv/www/htdocs/lam/lib/lamdaemon.pl If you installed a Debian or
RPM package then the script will be located at
/usr/share/ldap-account-manager/lib/lamdaemon.pl.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Your LAM admin user must be a valid Unix account. It needs to
have the object class "posixAccount" and an attribute "uid". This
account must be accepted by the SSH daemon of your home directory
server. Do not create a second local account but change your system
to accept LDAP users. You can use LAM to add the Unix account part
to your admin user or create a new account. Please do not forget to
setup LDAP write access (<ulink
url="http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/access-control.html">ACLs</ulink>)
if you create a new account.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para></para>
<screenshot>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="images/lamdaemon.png" />
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
<para>Note that the builtin admin/manager entries do not work for
lamdaemon. You need to login with a Unix account.</para>
<screenshot>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="images/lamdaemon1.png" />
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
<para><emphasis role="bold">OpenLDAP ACL location:</emphasis></para>
<para>The access rights for OpenLDAP are configured in
/etc/ldap/slapd.conf or
/etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn=config/olcDatabase={1}bdb.ldif.</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Setup sudo</title>
<para>The perl script has to run as root. Therefore we need a wrapper,
sudo. Edit /etc/sudoers on host where homedirs or quotas should be used
and add the following line:</para>
<para>$admin All= NOPASSWD: $path_to_lamdaemon *</para>
<para><emphasis condition="">$admin</emphasis> is the admin user from
LAM (must be a valid Unix account) and
<emphasis>$path_to_lamdaemon</emphasis> is the path to
lamdaemon.pl.</para>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Example:</emphasis></para>
<para>myAdmin ALL= NOPASSWD: /srv/www/htdocs/lam/lib/lamdaemon.pl
*</para>
<para>You might need to run the sudo command once manually to init sudo.
The command "sudo -l" will show all possible sudo commands of the
current user.</para>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Attention:</emphasis> Please do not use the
options "Defaults requiretty" and "Defaults env_reset" in /etc/sudoers.
Otherwise you might get errors like "you must have a tty to run sudo" or
"no tty present and no askpass program specified".</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Setup Perl</title>
<para>We need an extra Perl module - Quota. To install it, run:</para>
<simplelist>
<member>perl -MCPAN -e shell</member>
<member>install Quota</member>
</simplelist>
<para>If your Perl executable is not located in /usr/bin/perl you will
have to edit the path in the first line of lamdaemon.pl. If you have
problems compiling the Perl modules try installing a newer release of
your GCC compiler and the "make" application.</para>
<para>Several Linux distributions already include a quota package for
Perl.</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Set up SSH</title>
<para>Your SSH daemon must offer the password authentication method. To
activate it just use this configuration option in
/etc/ssh/sshd_config:</para>
<para>PasswordAuthentication yes</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Troubleshooting</title>
<para>If you have problems managing quotas and home directories then
these points might help:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>There is a test page for lamdaemon: Login to LAM and open
Tools -&gt; Tests -&gt; Lamdaemon test</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Check /var/log/auth.log or its equivalent on your system. This
file contains messages about all logins. If the ssh login failed
then you will find a description about the reason here.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Set sshd in debug mode. In /etc/ssh/sshd_conf add these
lines:</para>
<simplelist>
<member>SyslogFacility AUTH</member>
<member>LogLevel DEBUG3</member>
</simplelist>
<para>Now check /var/log/syslog for messages from sshd.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Error message <emphasis role="bold">"Your LAM admin user (...)
must be a valid Unix account to work with lamdaemon!"</emphasis>: This
happens if you use the default LDAP admin/manager user to login to LAM.
Please see <link linkend="a_lamdaemonConf">here</link> and setup a Unix
account.</para>
</section>
</appendix>