[Freeipa-users] Migrating from custom auth system

[Nicola Canepa]

If I enable the PAM plugin of 389-ds, I'm able to let users be 
authenticated by PAM, even if the user is not present il LDAP, hence the 
plain-text password is passed to PAM.
The only missing step is: if PAM correctly authenticates a non-existing 
user, it should be created (using the just supplied password).

Nicola

Il 09/07/15 15:20, Alexander Bokovoy ha scritto:
> On Thu, 09 Jul 2015, Nicola Canepa wrote:
>> Thank you Alexander.
>> If the previous password is not used, I could set an impossible-hash 
>> password (such as "{crypt}*") and let users login authenticating 
>> trhough PAM?
> How would you authenticate then? Remember that it is the hash in
> userPassword attribute that is used for actual authentication. If
> password-handling plugin cannot calculate to the same hash based on the
> plain-text password it was supplied via LDAP bind, how would user
> successfully authenticate?
>
> If you migrate this way, you need password hashes, at least.
> If you are going to issue users with new passwords, just create all of
> them in IPA with these new passwords and ask them to login, at least
> once, to IPA self-service.
>
>> Or I could put the "user-add" in the pam_exec script (but only if the 
>> user does not already exists).
> I don't think is is sufficiently good, at least I wouldn't do it this
> way.
>

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