Re: LDAP auth

From: Alvaro Lopes (alvieboy@alvie.com)
Date: 07/30/02 

Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:34:25 +0100
From: Alvaro Lopes <alvieboy@alvie.com>
To: focus-linux <focus-linux@securityfocus.com>

Hi

But tell me, is this a PAM issue or a NSS issue ? AFAIK you only need a
LDAP-aware NSS library for reading authentication stuff, althrough you
need PAM if you want your users to change anything stored on the LDAP
server (eg, password).

I am currently testing both W2K Active Directory and OpenLDAP, with
several clients (windowzs, linuxes, etc..). As I heard (and not yet
tested), UNIX clients work well with W2K A.D., but Windows clients seem
to fail a bit with Linux OpenLDAP servers. Do you have any info on this ?

Thanks

Alvaro Lopes
University of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro - Portugal

Ken Gourlay wrote:

> I had 3 redhat servers and a database of about 4000 users, and PAM
> would do very screwy things like request a list of all the groups
> whenever a user logged in -- and the way LDAP responds, it'd take the
> server at least several minutes to serve up the resulting list.

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