2011/4/16 Arthur de Jong arthur@arthurdejong.org:
On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 14:35 -0500, Madhusudan Singh wrote:
Can you give me some details of this ?
nss-pam-ldapd is an alternative to nss_ldap and pam_ldap provided by PADL. Some distributions have packages for it but you should also be able to install from source. The NSS and PAM modules can be built separately.
The nss-pam-ldapd homepage contains some documentation and downloads: http://arthurdejong.org/nss-pam-ldapd/
I do not want to mess up a working authentication mechanism if I can avoid it.
Authentication is provided by the PAM module but also requires the NSS module to be functional. The NSS module provides home directory, shell, etc. Configuration of nss_ldap and pam_ldap varies per distribution (/etc/ldap.conf, /etc/nss_ldap.conf,...). For nss-pam-ldapd a single file /etc/nslcd.conf provides the configuration for both modules.
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Also, if that workstation only is used by a couple of users, a quick workaround would be to add users to /etc/passwd like this:
--- +user123:::::/home/CAMPUS/user123: ---
That worked for me in openSUSE 11.3 and 11.4.
Regards, Ciro