From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 22 2: 0: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5558A37B47A for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 01:59:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.11.3/8.11.3/frmug-2.7/nospam) with UUCP id g4M8xew40255; Wed, 22 May 2002 10:59:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from erwan@free.fr) Received: from free.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amelie.frmug.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04CDB722C; Wed, 22 May 2002 10:50:34 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3CEB5BD9.6010009@free.fr> Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 10:50:33 +0200 From: Erwan Arzur User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020516 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kirill Alder-Ponazdyr Cc: Erick Mechler , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and LDAP Directory References: <20020521222314.3C47D37B40C@hub.freebsd.org> <20020521153245.K10179@techometer.net> <20020521223735.AA60537B409@hub.freebsd.org> <20020521155511.L10179@techometer.net> <20020521230333.9CEA237B400@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kirill Alder-Ponazdyr wrote: >>:: Not really, pam_ldap does authenticate the user, but I am talking about >>:: retrieving much broader data, such as UID->NAME GID->Groupname Mappings, >>:: services definitions and so on. >> >>If you just want the ability to look at the data in your directory (sorry >>if I'm misunderstanding again), then gq (http://biot.com/gq/, net/gq) seems >>like it would fit the bill. > > > Hi, > > Indeed, you are missunderstanding :) > > I want the OS to be able to query the LDAP directory for the things like: > > hosts definitions > services definitions > passwd(users) database > groups database > www.padl.com (the maker of the pam_ldap port) provides a LDAP<->NIS gateway. http://www.padl.com/Products/NISLDAPGateway.html I think you just have to setup your BSD hosts as regular NIS clients, and setup mappings in the gateway appropriately. Iplanet's directory server might provide such a mapping, too. Never tested, though, and all this is commercial software, not supporting *BSD, AFAIK. By the way, http://www.google.com/search?q=NIS+ldap comes handy ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message