Subject: Re: Using LDAP for X login
To: Matthew Fincham <matthewf@cat.co.za>
From: Quentin Garnier <netbsd@quatriemek.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/04/2003 13:52:52
Le Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:47:43 +0200
Matthew Fincham a écrit :
> Hi
> 
> I have sent this before but was not sure if it got through, so I am
> sending it again. This will be the last send! :-)
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I am looking to set up an X-server login to use an LDAP user database
> instead of the "/etc/master.password" system. One option I see for this
> is to replace the xdm login prompt with a login prompt (program) that
> uses the the LDAP server. I am looking for some hints or references on
> how to do this, or an alternative method to implement this.

I guess you could install security/PAM, security/pam-ldap and x11/gdm with
USE_PAM=yes. I haven't tried though.

-- 
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net
"Feels like I'm fiddling while Rome is burning down.
Should I lay my fiddle down and take a rifle from the ground ?"
Leigh Nash/Sixpence None The Richer, Paralyzed, Divine Discontents, 2002.