On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:14:42PM +1000, Mark Constable wrote: > > Sorry to belabour the point... but how on earth do the > people who use ldap provide home directory information ? > Surely they do not keep a password file around just to > provide homedir and uid/gid info ? > > Got any more of those juicy keywords to search on ? :-) > The "PAM LDAP" stuff is really 2 library modules: one for PAM; one for NSS. Look at your local /etc/nsswitch.conf for the kind of stuff the NSS abstraction layer provides. Look at the glibc info docs for information about this; I don't know if there's anything there, but there should be. Wil -- W. Reilly Cooley wcooley@nakedape.cc Naked Ape Consulting http://nakedape.cc LNXS: Linux/GNU for servers, networks, and http://lnxs.org people who take care of them. *Now with integrated crypto!* irc.openprojects.net #lnxs Mencken and Nathan's Ninth Law of The Average American: The quality of a champagne is judged by the amount of noise the cork makes when it is popped.