Re: slightly off-topic: Central Auth

["Scot Kreienkamp" <SKreien@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

These are all RH4 and 5, so they do all have PAM.  I thought PAM had to interface with something else, which is where NIS and LDAP enter the picture, to authenticate to another server though.  Otherwise I’m not sure how it works?

 

Thanks,

 

Scot Kreienkamp

skreien@xxxxxxxxxxxx

 

From: Scott Mead [mailto:scott.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 2:50 PM
To: Scot Kreienkamp
Cc: pgsql-general
Subject: Re: slightly off-topic: Central Auth

 

 

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Scot Kreienkamp <SKreien@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hey everyone,

 

I apologize in advance for going slightly off topic, but I have never setup a centralized authentication scheme under Linux.  My question is, what do most people do for centralized command line, X, and PG authentication?  From what I’ve read the main choices are NIS or LDAP.  LDAP would be problematic as I would have to embed a login and plain text password in the ldap.conf file for binding to the MS AD. 

    It sounds like PAM would be useful for you.  That's really what is was built for.
--Scott