Subject: Re: Authenticating with LDAP
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
From: Eric Fox <eric@fox.phoenix.az.us>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/13/2003 09:35:46
Have you looked at security/pam-ldap in pkgsrc?

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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> I'm trying to integrate a NetBSD machine into a network which is
> mostly made of Debian machines, and which stores all the user
> information in a LDAP database.
>
> Apparently, there is no easy way to use a LDAP database for
> authentication (sshd, login, sudo, etc) on the NetBSD machine. The
> informations I've found:
>
> http://csociety.ecn.purdue.edu/projects/ldap.html (an ugly hack, a
> croned Perl script to refresh /etc/passwd from LDAP)
>
> http://www.nectar.cc/zope/freebsd/nsswitch (nss but not LDAP)
>
> nsdispatch apparently has no LDAP support.
>
> Therefore, may I safely assume that I cannot authentify from LDAP on
> NetBSD and I should search something else?
>
>
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