From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 28 8:12:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.md.home.com (ha1.rdc1.md.home.com [24.2.2.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C020E37B6E6 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 08:12:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@code-fu.com) Received: from exodus ([24.6.109.184]) by mail.rdc1.md.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with SMTP id <20000428151245.OAJ23916.mail.rdc1.md.home.com@exodus> for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 08:12:45 -0700 Message-ID: <012f01bfb124$37501f40$0301a8c0@codefu.com> From: "Michael A. Smith" To: References: <956934254.11044@egroups.com> Subject: Re: Some NIS questions... Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 11:12:48 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Essentially what I'd like to do is maintain a single /etc/passwd file, > allowing all machines to share the same user/group database; hence our > radius clients, and our webhosting clients, and our mail-server's > clients can all route to a single username. I don't know anything about NIS, but I think you can do this with PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module). PAM basically lets you authenticate users against a variety of sources -- including an LDAP database. I've seen this set up before -- a number of boxes have PAM set up and pointing to a single LDAP database for authentication. -- Michael A. Smith -- Programmer at Large Phone:703-625-5732 Fax: 801-650-0853 ICQ: 35884415 :wq To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message