Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 14:56:21 -0700 (PDT) From: "nate" <freebsd@aphroland.org> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ldap authentication in freebsd Message-ID: <23678.216.39.174.24.1025819781.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.net> In-Reply-To: <1025755914.96482.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1025755914.96482.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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<quote who="Joe Marcus Clarke"> > 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
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