On Sunday 29 May 2005 16:46, Quentin Garnier wrote:
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> But anyway, it won't work, because you don't have the NSS module to
> go along.  Authentication is one thing, but now how does the system
> retrieve the UID of the account?  The home directory?
>
> What we need is a NSS module (while PADL's PAM module might work
> out of the pkgsrc with OpenPAM, the NSS module will not work with our
> libc).
Any suggestion on how to move from an NIS-based authentication to LDAP?
The university where I work is apparently planning to exclusively use LDAP,
so I guess I will have to make the move.

Thierry.