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Date:      Wed, 21 Jan 2004 00:00:09 -0500
From:      David Raynes <rayners@rayners.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Using a different User Database
Message-ID:  <20040121050009.GA69282@stilgar>
In-Reply-To: <20040121045038.GA18805@alzatex.com>
References:  <20040121045038.GA18805@alzatex.com>

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* Loren M. Lang <lorenl@alzatex.com> [040121 00:13]:
> I'm looking for a way to access user information not stored in
> /etc/passwd, (i.e. an ldap database)  On Linux I would install the
> proper nss module and set that up, but it seems freebsd doesn't support
> that yet.  My ultimate goal would be to authenticate it against a win2k
> active directory service (sorry, I have no control over it and can't do
> it the other way around)  I know about the pam modules, but I also need
> the user info as well.  Also, what should I do about the home dirs?
> Make them all use some generic home dir or use something like a pam
> module that creates one, I believe linux has such a pam module.

You may want to start by looking into the net/nss_ldap and security/pam_ldap
ports.  Beyond that, I don't know what to tell you.

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