Craig White wrote:
>
The way you've posed the question, it has nothing to do with CentOS, so I am
unsurprised you got crap for it on IRC.
I thought one of the big deals in Centos was the ability to configure
PAM to authenticate anywhere you want and all the apps use the same
settings? Isn't that true, or aren't there any jabber/IRC servers that
are bundled properly into the distribution?
This sounds very much like a distro-centric question to me, even if the
answer turns out to be that Centos doesn't provide that.
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actually no.
I am currently using ejabberd and it is not common to authenticate
'real' users but certain possible.
Are you speaking for places that actually have all of their users in AD
when you say it is not common authenticate real users?
The point of authenticating against LDAP is rarely do you only want
user/id authentication but you also want address books/user lists and
other attributes that can be useful such as e-mail address.
But those may or may not be the same ones you'd find in AD.
In addition, jabber servers do have to store attributes about users so
there's little to be served by marrying PAM functions in.
I'd settle for not having yet another password.
What you should have noticed here Les, is that Windows AD users are
mostly clueless to how LDAP works and integrating Windows AD/LDAP into
other software is a challenge for them.
Which is why you'd want to set up PAM once, not
login/ssh/imap/pop/http/smtp/samba and all those other applications that
want a password. Especially when you want to be able to add local
accounts in addition to using a network authentication mechanism.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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