Subject: Re: Authenticating against LDAP?
To: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@larsshack.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/26/2004 22:07:58
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 08:53:38AM -0500, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> 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?
write a ldap module for nsswitch ?
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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