Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 10:06:53 -0600 From: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu>, Kris Kennaway <kkenn@rebel.net.au>, "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990721100653.D1520@fisicc-ufm.edu> In-Reply-To: <3795EEB9.1A21EEA@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 01:00:57AM %2B0900 References: <199907201520.LAA29350@cs.rpi.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907210141030.41996-100000@morden.rebel.net.au> <19990721094711.C1520@fisicc-ufm.edu> <3795EEB9.1A21EEA@newsguy.com>
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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 -- For PGP Public Key: finger obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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