[K12OSN] Ldap + smb auth?

Burke Almquist balmquist at mindfirestudios.com
Sat Feb 12 07:19:15 UTC 2005


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For non-PAM distros, the nsswitch file can change this too.  Worth 
looking at.

On Feb 11, 2005, at 10:04 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:

> Has anyone tried using LDAP for everything but authentication?  That 
> is,
> add winbindd or smb authentication to the PAM setup so when local or
> LDAP authentication fails it will check the password against the
> domain controller.  That should let you control uid's and home 
> directory
> mapping in LDAP without the issue of having to maintain another copy
> of everyone's password (if you already have them in a domain
> controller).  I'm doing local+smb now, but have to create the accounts
> I want on each machine and I could switch to LDAP easily if the
> passwords could still come from the domain controller.
>
> -- 
>   Les Mikesell
>    les at futuresource.com
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