On 2014-06-06, mordech3@post.tau.ac.il mordech3@post.tau.ac.il wrote:
In addition, system-config-authentication requires the use of LDAPS or LDAP with TLS. Only command line tools are able to configure simple LDAP (no TLS or SSL). However, even being a security measure, we'd like to avoid all the (serious) burden of working with certificates at first for simple experimentation.
Here are some guides that I referenced to configure CentOS LDAP auth without certificates:
https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7679 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-enterprise-47/rhel-6-ldap-now-...
That being said, if you are starting from the ground up, I think it's probably better to start moving towards using SSL certs. It is likely to get harder and harder to configure plain LDAP auth in CentOS, especially with RHEL 7 coming out.
--keith