[ale] ldap user auth on a per machine basis?

Sean McNealy sean.mcnealy at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 19:20:10 EDT 2009


Sounds like you're looking for pam_ldap
http://wiki.debian.org/LDAP/PAM

"The pam_ldap module provides the ability to specify a list of hosts a
user is allowed to log into, in the "host" attribute in LDAP."

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Jim Kinney<jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a technical question about ldap. I may be misremembering but here
> goes: Does ldap support per machine user authentication?
>
> example: all system use files, ldap for user auth. Fred is allowed access to
> machines in group A but not in group B. Fred does NOT have an entry in
> /etc/passwd on group A machines. ldap is used to provide authentication for
> Fred for machines in A but denies authentication for Fred on group B
> machines.
>
> It may be the Holy Grail of ldap I'm looking for....
>
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