Re: ldap user authentication, PAM and chsh (change shell): how to make it work?

Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > * Howard Chu <hyc(a)symas.com&gt; [20181216 08:57]: >> Ryan Tandy wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 03:24:17PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: >>>> I'm using libnss-ldap along with pam-ldap on Ubuntu and Debian clients. >>> >>> I have not tried this myself, but recent versions of nss-pam-ldapd appear to include a 'chsh.ldap' command in the nslcd-utils package.  However it looks like >>> that would require you to be using libnss-ldapd and libpam-ldapd with nslcd, rather than the old libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap. >> >> Would be best to be running those anyway, since the old stuff was deprecated long ago. > > Well, I hard-locked all the systems I tried to install libnss-ldapd along with > nslcd: no ssh sessions, no console logins, nada. Once more, a PAM-related > issue I guess. > Also, it seems that all the info I find out there about how to configure those > are either obsolete, very old and in some cases, 'not even wrong' :) > > As for being 'deprecated', https://wiki.debian.org/LDAP/NSS claims that: > > "In general libnss-ldapd is simpler but newer and libnss-ldap is more mature > but more complex...". The author of nss_ldap and pam_ldap officially abandoned those packages ~9 years ago. Support for those packages was redirected from the authors at PADL.com to Symas.com back in 2007 or so,

and we (Symas) have promoted nss-pam-ldapd and OpenLDAP nssov since 2010. nss-ldap is not mature, it is dead.