Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:12:34 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt@yahoo.com.hk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feature request (pam/nss ldap, nsswitch ldap integration) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041030121110.30993B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20041030024557.53081.qmail@web51805.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Patrick Dung wrote: > First of all, I know that most committers or contributors contribute > their work in their free time. I am not asking for any promise but I > just want to discuss a possible improvement for FreeBSD. > > So my suggestion is: integrate pam_ldap, nss_ldap, nsswitch support with > ldap and lookupd (ie LDAP client support) into the OS. Perhaps by > default, the ldap support is off. It can be enabled by a switch in > /etc/make.conf (like KERBEROS) > > FreeBSD has the above support in the ports. But I think it would be > great if FreeBSD support LDAP out of the box. Just like Solaris and > most Linux distro. The integration with LDAP is like the integration of > OpenPAM, OpenSSH, AMD automounter and BIND in FreeBSD. This is something I'd very much like to see happen -- while we don't have an Active Directory infrastructure at work, our goal in finding funding for the NSS work was specifically to facilitate this happening. While some will undoubtably complain, supporting immediate and tight integration with active directory would be quite useful. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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