Re: How can I use openLDAP with solaris authentication

[Jim Roberts <jroberts@realmedia.com>]

If you happen to be running Solaris 8, I believe it supports LDAP 
directly from the nsswitch.conf.  At least the release notes 
mention the capability.

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/whatsnew2.html#installation

Incidently, has anyone tried this out?


On Thu, 25 May 2000, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:

> At 03:52 PM 5/23/00 +0700, Pipat Khunprakan wrote:
> >How can I use openLDAP with Solaris user authentication system?
> 
> You likely need to clarify what you want to get a suitable
> answer.  If you interested in having LDAP users authenticated
> via some Solaris user authentication service, you might have
> to hack OpenLDAP password checker (liblutil/passwd.c).  If,
> on other hand, you want to authenticate Solaris users against
> the directory, you likely need pam_ldap or such.  PADL offers
> a number of tools which might be useful <http://www.padl.com/>
> in this case.
>