[ale] How LDAP works with authentication

[Keith Hopkins]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Correct.  We have a customer with many users.  They claim to use LDAP to
> store all their user records.  When a user logs into Winbloze that
> desktop authenticates via LDAP.
> 
> What I want to do is to allow our device to authenticate in the same
> manner using the same records.  I do not want to have to create a
> special format that will force them to keep double entries of all users.
> 
> I do not want write.  I simply need to authenticate a user via the
> password that is store in LDAP.
> 
> What Im trying to figure out is that if I can implement getpwnam(const
> char *user) to get data from LDAP instead of /etc/passwd.

PAM

http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-06/guru_01.html (you'll have to hunt down the next issue too)

http://www.metaconsultancy.com/whitepapers/ldap-linux.htm
http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/solutions/ldap.html
http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/solutions/ldap-auth-pam.html
http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/15/1930256&from=rss
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/1645.html

> I have no clue what they use.  I have OpenLDAP on my desktop but have
> not configured it.  I imagine they use something standard so that all
> their devices authenticate via that method.


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