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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 10:06:53 -0600
From: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu>
To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
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Subject: Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD
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On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 01:00:57AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Oscar Bonilla wrote:
>> 
>> There are three parts to the problem:
>> 
>> 1. Where do we get the databases from? I mean, where do we get passwd, group,
>>    hosts, ethers, etc from.
>> 
>>    This should be handled by a name service switch a la solaris. Basically
>>    we want to be able to tell the system for each individual database where
>>    to get the stuff from. We can add entries for each database in the system.
> 
> I perceive here an unfair biasing toward nss. Someone mentioned
> defining where to get the passwords from based on the login class.
> This is a very interesting option, that doesn't seem to be well
> served by nss.
> 

I was actually talking about the "other" entries. 
usename:uid:gid:gecos:home:shell
where does PAM fit in the schema you talk about?
would we need to make PAM login.conf aware then?
Where do we get login.conf from? from nsswitch.conf?

Regards,

-Oscar

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