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Re: How exactly does PAM figure into things? Was: Alternatives to LDAP

To: ichbin@shadlen.org
Subject: Re: How exactly does PAM figure into things? Was: Alternatives to LDAP
From: Luke Howard <lukeh@PADL.COM>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 09:20:50 +1000
Cc: jcllings@tsunamicomm.net, dan@devonit.com, OpenLDAP-software@OpenLDAP.org
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>The Linux login applications are, for example, compiled with PAM 
>support. You need to use pam_ldap to get them to authenticate against an 
>LDAP database.
>
>The Mac OS X login, on the other hand, supports LDAP directly.

Actually, OS X login uses PAM (in 10.2). However, LDAP authentication is
done in a somewhat more complex manner than on Linux.

-- Luke

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Luke Howard | lukehoward.com
PADL Software | www.padl.com

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