From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 21:12: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FF9237B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 21:11:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE08443E31 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 21:11:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (marcus@shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g644BLp4025289; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 00:11:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: ldap authentication in freebsd From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: nate Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List In-Reply-To: <13670.216.39.174.24.1025743278.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.net> References: <13670.216.39.174.24.1025743278.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ifbe0T6h/9lJ2cuEadED" X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 04 Jul 2002 00:11:54 -0400 Message-Id: <1025755914.96482.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-ifbe0T6h/9lJ2cuEadED Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 20:41, nate wrote: > hi >=20 > i was wanting to know how i would go about using ldap to authenticate > in freebsd. i see there is the padl' pam_ldap module but what > about storing user information (/etc/passwd) in ldap? on solaris > and linux among others there is nsswitch.conf and nss_ldap, but > freebsd 4.6 does not appear to support nsswitch, nor the modules > for it. so what would I do to store this information in ldap and > retrieve it from ldap ? I use the pam_ldap module (security/pam_ldap), but as you know, this is only for user authentication. I heard that PADL's NIS to LDAP gateway for FreeBSD works, though I have not tried it myself. You may want to check that out. Joe >=20 > is there some document somewhere that describes the various > authentication methods available to freebsd ? >=20 > thanks >=20 > nate >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 --=-ifbe0T6h/9lJ2cuEadED Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQA9I8sKb2iPiv4Uz4cRAtYgAJ0bGx9MplSUYhwDyOThhqJDGHgOEwCY18a7 3zSj4DAXKT//JrAQxIaoeA== =X+7q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ifbe0T6h/9lJ2cuEadED-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message