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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