On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Marco Teeuwen wrote: |> Hello people, |> |> I'm trying to find out which pam configuration files is used by programs |> such as 'ls', which translate uid's/group id's to user/group names. PAM is only responsible for authentication. For operations such as ls and finger, the data sources specified in the /etc/nsswitch.conf files are consulted. Typically, the nsswitch data sources are the flat files such as /etc/passwd and /etc/group What you need to do is find an NSS module which performs username/group lookups against an LDAP server. Here's a good place to start: http://www.padl.com/OSS/nss_ldap.html Michael -- /* BEGIN SIG * * "Afraid of change, afraid of staying the same, * when temptation calls, we just look away." * - Barenaked Ladies * * "He started writing in mirror writing, 'Help! I'm * trapped behind the world.'" * - New York State Journal of Medicine * *----------------------------- * Michael Chang * miranda@xxxxxxxxxx * http://www.syndetic.org/ */ _______________________________________________ Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
