Re: On PAM and authentication
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 07:09:23PM +0100, Tom Lees wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 10:33:29AM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> > >
> > > I recently tried out LDAP on my machine for authentication. I used tools
> > > available at http://www.rage.net/ldap/, and I'm pleased to say it works.
> > > By using the NSS module, it works with all existing tools, including XDM,
> > > etc., that I have tried, except for tin (my version is libc5 though),
> > > and passwd, gpasswd, etc (for users authenticated via LDAP).
> >
> > This is good news. I spent some time hacking at LDAP and wasn't as
> > successful. I was interested in using it for e-mail directories.
> >
> > I didn't think it was hard to setup once I figured out what had to be
> > done. It was the browsing tools that seems to be hokey.
>
> Using the MigrationTools pkg and some custom editing magic due to me using
> shadow passwords, it took me less than 5 minutes to figure out.
>
> WARNING: There was ONE other package which went VERY wrong with LDAP/NSS.
> This was exim. I don't know why, though I suspect it has something to
> do with the other libs it is linked to:-
On further investigation, this turns out to be because my procmail is still
libc5.
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