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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