Subject: Re: pam+ldap
To: Thierry Lacoste <th.lacoste@wanadoo.fr>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/29/2005 22:05:41
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On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 09:54:35PM +0200, Thierry Lacoste wrote:
> On Sunday 29 May 2005 16:46, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> [snip]
> > But anyway, it won't work, because you don't have the NSS module to
> > go along.  Authentication is one thing, but now how does the system
> > retrieve the UID of the account?  The home directory?
> >
> > What we need is a NSS module (while PADL's PAM module might work
> > out of the pkgsrc with OpenPAM, the NSS module will not work with our
> > libc).
> Any suggestion on how to move from an NIS-based authentication to LDAP?
> The university where I work is apparently planning to exclusively use LDA=
P,
> so I guess I will have to make the move.

Doesn't PADL have a NIS-LDAP gateway?  I think such a thing exists
somewhere.  Can't tell much more though.

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Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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