From owner-freebsd-security Wed Sep 27 0:39:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E996137B424 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:39:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA61959; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:39:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Steven E. Ames" Cc: "Kevin Riggins" , Subject: Re: LDAP and user authentication revisited... References: <034f01c027f2$06f43350$8a1a050a@winstar.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 27 Sep 2000 09:39:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Steven E. Ames"'s message of "Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:43:21 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Steven E. Ames" writes: > Actually... maybe not in 4.x but in -CURRENT we have nsswitch now... > Unless I'm way off base that's a huge step toward getting LDAP user > authentication. That in conjunction with the LDAP NIS package might just > get you there (haven't tried myself). FreeBSD has had PAM support for quite some time now, and I'd be surprised if there wasn't a PAM LDAP module available somewhere. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message