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From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Jan Bramkamp wrote:

> On 15.07.2013 21:51, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>>
>> Wouldn't it be easier just to edit /etc/nsswitch.conf
>> anyway?
> PAM and NSS switch are two different subsystems. NSS is just for
> resource lookups (users, groups, hosts, ...). PAM is for access control.
>
> With ldap in nsswitch.conf for users and groups you can lookup a LDAP
> user but the user can't log into $service through PAM. This requires
> pam_ldap.so in pam.d/$service.

Minor correction.  "This requires the ldap PAM library (pam_ldap.so)
to be installed."  No pam.d entries seem to be needed.  None seem
to be necessary on Solaris 10 either.

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DE