Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 12:59:18 -0400 From: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> To: "Michael A. Smith" <msmith@code-fu.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some NIS questions... Message-ID: <3909C366.56196E48@glue.umd.edu> References: <956934254.11044@egroups.com> <012f01bfb124$37501f40$0301a8c0@codefu.com>
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"Michael A. Smith" wrote: > > > 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. Any idea where I could find more info on this? -Brandon -- bfoz@glue.umd.edu "Lead, follow, or get run over" "In life there are those who steer, and those who push" "I'm not impatient, the world is too slow" "Life is short, so have fun, play hard, and leave a good looking corpse" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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