I wanted to make LDAP work (I tried to search for LDAP authentication in this forum, but couldn't really find much useful). I tried on linux mint and it seemed to work quite ok. Next I tried on anti-X15 - it seems like it doesn't by default know all the LDAP-packages. At least I think this command didn't work (otherwise, let me check and post back):
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My question is generally: How (or is it?) safe is it, to add ubuntu (or linux-mint) repository (adding support for many LDAP-packages)? Do I risk it screws a lot up? I think the minute I then type"apt-get update" or"apt-get upgrade" I'll maybe risk screwing up the already installed packages? But I'm not sure...
You ask if it is safe (or to what extent is it) to add Ubuntu based repos to antiX. I would strongly advise against doing so.
This *might* help
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Thanks a lot for helping and thanks a lot for the link. My problem: I found a guide and I thought I could do exactly the same on ubuntu as on antiX-15 (authentication works on ubuntu, however I've not yet tried to make it work with automounting /home which is something I hope to do in the future also, including for the MX15-machine). I discovered that this single package (see output below) is not available and therefore things are not as on ubuntu - I cannot make it work without this package. Please see here:
root@Wyse-mx1:/etc
# apt-get install ldap-auth-client
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ldap-auth-client
That's my problem! I agree, I'm too afraid of trying to add a ubuntu-repository, because I imagine"apt-get update" would really screw packages up. I'll read the link you provided later - I'm just a bit suprised to discover that LDAP doesn't work the same as on ubuntu. Maybe it doesn't even work on antiX-15?
Any practical experience from anyone? That would be greatly appreciated (also any ideas/suggestions are MOST welcome!)... Thanks.
Well, apt-get dist-upgrade is not the real problem. You can (should) simply disable the PPA before doing that. The problem might be the package itself if it doesn't work properly with the rest.
I'm not that this is the case that you cannot make it work without ldap-auth-client. You would need to follow the guide (complicate and I don't understand it myself from looking over it) and use config files and command line.
From personal experience, I would advice AGAINST keeping Ubuntu repositories available with antix. I have had to completely re-do and re-install the distros I play around with on my laptop. (And when you have 5 or 6 different distros on a 500 GB hard drive, it tends to be a pain.)
@eugen-b & jdmeaux1952: Thanks a lot for practical input/experience about ubuntu-repos. I can see, I should forget about trying to get/install the ldap-client-package, from other repositories, than the"default" ones already enabled or turned on, under / etc/apt/sources.list.d/...
I lately experienced that my small MX15-pc for some reason cannot connect to anything on the internet nor LAN... However I could ssh from my LAN to the MX-15 pc (a thin client with 1 GB RAM and 32 GB USB-space where the OS is installed onto) - it's weird, like a"one-way" direction internet-connection, not sure what happened, I don't remember messing with firewall only LDAP... Anyway, these network problems started right after I tried a lot of things about, when I tried to make LDAP work. Now I need a stable working computer for about 1 month, before I begin to experiment again (I normally only experiment on an"extra pc" so I have working programs on at least one computer). I'll try to follow this guide (which one of you kindfully linked to in the beginning):
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later... I think there's no other way now, than to try again without the ldap-client-package. Hopefully it'll work. I might follow up on this thread later, if I succeed, especially with PAM and automount of /home from network (especially with encrypted /home, but let's see how it'll turn out)... If I succeed, I'll write a description of what I did and maybe it can help other people in the future...
Thanks for your help - I still appreciate knowing/reading about, if anyone succeeded with LDAP and automounted /home (maybe also encrypted /home with NFS-mount) - and for confirmation if the guide in this link should be okay for MX15 or not
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. Thanks all for your kind help so far!