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Date:      04 Jul 2002 00:11:54 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        nate <freebsd@aphroland.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ldap authentication in freebsd
Message-ID:  <1025755914.96482.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 20:41, nate wrote:
> hi
>=20
> 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.

Joe

>=20
> is there some document somewhere that describes the various
> authentication methods available to freebsd ?
>=20
> thanks
>=20
> nate
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
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