1. Overview
2. Module Description - What the module does and why it is useful
3. Setup - The basics of getting started with nslcd
   • What nslcd affects
4. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
5. Reference - An under-the-hood peek at what the module is doing and how
6. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.
7. Development - Guide for contributing to the module

This module installs and configured nslcd to get pam/nss data from ldap.

This module allows you to install and configure the nslcd daemon (and its dependencies), to provide ldap support for PAM and NSS.

• nslcd package and service
• /etc/nslcd.conf

Simply include/contain/required/declare the nslcd class. It includes a few sane defaults, so it should work out of the box. However, we recommend that you declare the class and override a few parameters:

• In the module

class { 'nslcd':
  ldap_uris => ['ldap://ldap01.mycompany.com:389','ldap://ldap02.mycompany.com:389'],
  ldap_search_base => 'dc=company,dc=com'
}

• In hieradata

nslcd::ldap_uris:
  - 'ldap://ldap01.company.com:389'
  - 'ldap://ldap02.company.com:389'
nslcd::ldap_search_base: 'dc=company,dc=com'

todo

The module has been tested with Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Debian 8, Debian 9 and Puppet 4.10. It should work with Puppet 4.x.

For additional OS support, you should contribute it back upstream!

The module doesn't support setting the rootbinddn and rootbindpw attributes yet, it will be added in a next version.

If you want to improve this module, send us a patch of pull request!