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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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigAD748879C56880FA02C73071 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ivan Voras wrote: > Manolis Kiagias wrote: >=20 >>> 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 >>> =20 >> 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 a= nd >> Linux, although there is a setting (UNSECURE=3Dtrue in /var/yp/Makefil= e 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. >=20 > 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). >=20 > 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. --------------enigAD748879C56880FA02C73071 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----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----- --------------enigAD748879C56880FA02C73071--
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