Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:29:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org> To: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan@hst.org.za> Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: passwd(1) and LDAP (was Re: FreeBSD 7.0, Open LDAP, PAM, TLS and NSS, howto?) Message-ID: <20071001142854.I34346@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> In-Reply-To: <200710010856.44860.jonathan@hst.org.za> References: <46FCDD68.6030901@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <1190989759.2994.26.camel@new-host> <200710010856.44860.jonathan@hst.org.za>
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Does it log in as the LDAP user or the PAM super-user to do the attribute change? I'll check out the source...but that's great news. ~BAS On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Friday 28 September 2007 16:29, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: >> FreeBSD 5.x and 6.x work fine with both PAM and NSS -> LDAP w/ TLS >> (PKI). >> >> All other services (RADIUS, Apache ((mod_ldap, mod_pam_auth), PHP, >> interactive shell, SFTP, etc.) can be tied into LDAP either directly or >> via PAM. >> >> As for password change, I don't know if anyone has a passwd(1) binary >> that properly changes the LDAP password attribute -- if there is and its >> out there, it requires ACL insanity. > > The passwd(1) program was rewritten some time ago to use PAM, but a test was > left in which prevents it doing so. I have asked, both on this list and on > freebsd-hackers in the last few weeks, whether there is any reason other than > historical to leave this test in, and been deafened by the silence. There are > a couple of PRs either open or suspended regarding this issue. > > I diked out the whole switch statement and replaced it with a single printf, > and it works for changing LDAP passwords. I haven't thoroughly tested to see > if it causes any other problems. > > Jonathan > l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ "Guilty? Yeah. But he knows it. I mean, you're guilty. You just don't know it. So who's really in jail?" ~Maynard James Keenan
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