Subject: Re: Centralized User and Password Management
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Jorgen Lundman <lundman@lundman.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/26/2004 10:01:23
Luke Mewburn wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:53:37PM -0500, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> | Luke Mewburn wrote:
> | >I intend to port PADL's nss_ldap.so to NetBSD and/or write one from
> | >scratch, sometime in the future.
> |
> | Will this mean that "ldap" can be an option for a "source" in nsswitch.conf?
>
> Yes. I currently have a functional /lib/nss_winbind.so.0 which is
> enabled in nsswitch.conf with a ``winbind'' source keyword. E.g:
> passwd: files nis winbind
> group: files nis winbind
PAM with LDAP is something we already use for Solaris so this would be a nice
addition. I assume that the intergrated SSL support in LDAP will "just work" and
can be enforcable as per normal.
Lund
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