Subject: Authenticating against LDAP?
To: NetBSD User's Discussion List <netbsd-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@larsshack.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/26/2004 08:53:38
Howdy all,

I'd like to get some NetBSD systems set up to authenticate against an 
RFC2307-style LDAP database.  In other worlds I would use the 
appropriate PAM module to get this working, but my brief investigation 
into pam support for NetBSD yielded very little useful information 
(mostly "pam sucks", "there's no reason to be compatible because pam 
sucks", and the fact that at the moment there doesn't appear to be a 
viable alternative).

So, okay, pam is out of the question.  What are my options?  There's 
PADL's ypldapd, I guess, and there's roll-my-own generation of static 
files from the LDAP data.  Is there anything else?

-- Lars