On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/30/2009 12:52 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Stefan Schlesinger wrote: > >>> > >>>> On Apr 29, 2009, at 01:38 , Mike McGrath wrote: > >>>>> I'd like someone to write a pam module to auth against fas. I'm not sure > >>>>> it's the way to go but I'd like to have something up and running to test > >>>>> with to see how it behaves, how it deals with some failure scenarios, etc. > >>>> I'm not sure what exactly you want to do, but pam_ldap should do what > >>>> you want, right? Or at least one could use it as codebase and modify it. > >>>> > >>> pam_ldap would probably be close to what we want and certainly a good > >>> place to look but we don't run an ldap server so it won't auth against > >>> fas. > >>> > >> Well normally what I have seen is that the 'FAS' server would export a > >> schema table to LDAP and LDAP would then be what is authenticated to > >> (the same with Kerberos if combined). Or the FAS server has a > >> mysql/postgres background and someone uses pam/mod mysql to do it. > >> > >> The one problem with custom pam modules is usually the 'oooooooh' > >> moment when something doesn't work quite as planned (hey look I can > >> sudo root as apache? how did that happen?) > >> > > > > This is a legit and good concern. Ricky and I were talking about it last > > night. Since we're re-thinking things I'm open to suggestions. Might be > > something as simple as getting an ldap server to communicate with a > > postgres backend? > > > > -Mike > Sorry for butting in like this, but I always assumed FAS would use LDAP > as a backend, so that 3rd parties, if they wanted to plug in to the > system, would utilize LDAP. Is that not the case? > Correct, that's not the case. Instead of LDAP we have a postgres backend and use json to auth, third parties use python-fedora to authenticate. We tried pretty hard to get LDAP working with our account system but ran into many problems and decided to go back to postgres. -Mike _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list
