Subject: Re: Authenticating against LDAP?
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Alexandre_Pauzi=E8s?= <popo@gcu.info>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/28/2004 17:53:14
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> writes:
> 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 ?
Never tried but : http://www.radux.com/ypAnything/
Tell me if you make a NetBSD package of it.
Alex.
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