From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 4 14:56:30 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 57BA537B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 14:56:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from saratoga.linuxpowered.net (saratoga.linuxpowered.net [63.121.110.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC42243E09 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 14:56:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@aphroland.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saratoga.linuxpowered.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EBB92C0109 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 14:56:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from saratoga.linuxpowered.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saratoga.linuxpowered.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 20AEB2C0106 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 14:56:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from portal.aphroland.org ([216.39.174.24]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user aphro) by webmail.linuxpowered.net with HTTP; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 14:56:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <23678.216.39.174.24.1025819781.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.net> Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 14:56:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: ldap authentication in freebsd From: "nate" To: In-Reply-To: <1025755914.96482.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1025755914.96482.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.5) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300 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 > On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 20:41, nate wrote: >> hi >> >> 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. ok thanks. i'll look into that again, though last i checked it was commercial and ran about $1k, a bit steep for a personal project on my home network :) i guess i may just store the entries in /etc/passwd since i have so few and they won't change much, was just hopin to get everything on ldap. nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message