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Re: LDAP authentication with PAM



Previously Brian May wrote:
> 1. pam_lastlog, pam_motd, pam_mail, etc do not appear to get used if
> pam_unix is used. I think this is because pam_ldap fails, and further
> processing is stopped.

That is because you used `sufficient' instead of `required' for
pam_unix: that one succeeds and PAM doesn't bother to process
the rest anymore.

> 2. pam_unix always seems to be used though as account information can
> be found via NSS. So pam_ldap probably is never tried, at least for
> the session, account and password management.

See above :)

Wichert.

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