Mark, > > No, this is not part of the PAM API. > Thanks for the clarification. I can stop banging > my head against the wall now. :) This fact probably ought to be in a PAM FAQ, plastered on all the documentation that ships with Linux-PAM, and in the banner when you subscribe to the mailing list. ;) > >> In the case of ftp and authing off MySQL via > >> PAM, how can I get around the need to also > >> have a copy of the user in /etc/passwd just > >> for the home dir setting ? > > To do this, you will want to make use of an NSS module in addition to PAM. > I'm not getting anything useful from searches on > "NSS"... would you mind passing on a URL or an > extra keyword so I can narrow the search please ? NSS + Solaris, NSS + glibc. It's an API that allows for multiple backends to the standard Unix getXXbyXX functions, used to retrieve things like user password entries, hostnames, etc. I don't know how widely supported NSS is, actually, but it's part of the C library on both Solaris and Linux. Regards, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
