Contributed by jose on from the ldap-authentication dept.
"Given that LDAP is becoming the 'de facto' standard for many things, including authentication, does anyone know if there are any plans for the inclusion of login_ldap (or equivalent) in a future release of our favourite OS?"Actually, as of two weeks ago there is a port of login_ldap which works with the BSD auth system. While not quite ready for "prime time" in the base system, it's easy to incorporate it now with a port. Any initial reports of how well this works?
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By Jedi/Sector One () j@pureftpd.org on http://www.pureftpd.org/
nss support would rock.
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A sound alternative to NSS would be nice though.
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By Jedi/Sector One () j@pureftpd.org on http://www.pureftpd.org/
No need to recompile/reinstall/reconfigure anything.
How is it a nightmare ?
PAM is a nightmare (because it only authenticates, it doesn't fetch users/groups/hosts).
But NSS is definitely something great.
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what would be good is some way to use the existing yp stuff to provide generic name based resolutions as an extension/brother of bsd auth. i had a brief look the other day at this, but i dont think its possible without turning into some ungodly hack.
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By Peter Werner () on
after looking at it, im lukewarm at best towards nss, i just think ldap is pretty neat.
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Supposed to have been working on fbsd.
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By Jedi/Sector One () j@pureftpd.org on http://www.pureftpd.org/
But yes, padl.org has both a PAM-LDAP handler and an NSS-LDAP handler.
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On the other hand, and please help me out if I am wrong, but authorizations are no different. So, with that said, it seems to me that local file security issues are still there and replication of password files is still required for resource access.
ldap makes replication easier with its master/slave and logging capabilities but it seems that our scalability is limited in a heterogeneous enviroment by acl support.
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