Re: How to limit it ?
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 06:55:58PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Grzegorz Pawel Szostak wrote:
> If you want more than that try using LDAP for password authentication, but it
> is REALLY difficult to setup, and some of the utility programs seem buggy.
>
> I still haven't got LDAP working right...
My friends and I have a working NIS/LDAP (on debian) implementation here at
home. I could put up some templates for people. Everything works with the
sole exception of ch{sh,fn} and passwd, but ldapmod and ldappasswd work quite
fine for us here and have effectively replaced these utilities.
Actually, now that I think about it, our ch{sh,fn} works. It's just passwd that doesn't, but this is due to a slight strangeness in that the hashing functions for the LDAP server and glibc(crypt) don't quite match. The problem comes when you login.
I can explain this further in depth if anyone cares to listen, but suffice to say, ldappasswd ends up being more functional in our case and really makes passwd unneccesary.
We haven't had to touch our setup after setting it up initally this spring.
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