Re: How to limit it ?
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Kain wrote:
>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.
Please put up some templates. I'd like to know what I'm doing wrong.
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