Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:22:49 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Centralized DB of "system" users Message-ID: <ghte1l$g0r$2@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <ghtdp3$g0r$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <139b44430812112348k5c51072ie771913c982f7cfe@mail.gmail.com> <49422A05.6050907@gmail.com> <ghtdp3$g0r$1@ger.gmane.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Ivan Voras wrote: > Manolis Kiagias wrote: > >>> don't have local users but they query the DB to get login credentials and >>> such. I don't >>> really know what to look for. So any suggestion and hints to how can i >>> achieve this >>> are welcomed. >>> >>> thank you and a great day, >>> v >>> >> What you are looking for is called NIS: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nis.html >> >> However note it is not (unfortunately) interoperable between FreeBSD and >> Linux, although there is a setting (UNSECURE=true in /var/yp/Makefile of >> the NIS server) that works around this, albeit it lowers security. >> >> There are other solutions too (LDAP?) but NIS would be the easiest to >> setup. > > I agree - NIS is easiest to setup, but LDAP is the right solution in > this case (though it's very complicated to set up, especially the first > time). > > One alternative to those is samba - there is pam_smb in the ports, but > there's no nss_smb but that's somewhat weird to use in a unix-like > environment :) I just found about http://pam-mysql.sourceforge.net/ In ports as security/pam-mysql and the NSS in net/libnss-mysql . I didn't try it. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJQjt5ldnAQVacBcgRAggSAJ0Wfz+0sVQxqDNLetNnbDVahUI9VQCcDh5a jRpGbFFRD66okyDq5x5lF2M= =1sHD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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