Use specific PAM configuration.

[Kenneth Geisshirt]

Quoting Sridhar Bandi <bandisfire at yahoo.com>:

>    Is it possible to have user specific configuration in PAM. For  example if
>   we need to use LDAP as authentication for all the users and normal
>   passwd based authentication for root, can we do that using the PAM
>   framework? If it is possible, can someone refer me there?

Yes, you can use PAM for validating normal users using LDAP and root  
using /etc/passwd (and /etc/shadow). You do that by stacking PAM  
modules (pam_ldap for the LDAP part, and pam_unix for the local part).

Please take a look at http://www.padl.com/OSS/pam_ldap.html and  
RedHat's documentation might give you an idea on how to configure it:  
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/ref-guide/s1-ldap-redhattips.html

/kneth


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