Re: CAN LOGIN WORK WITHOUT PAM

[Vishal Khanna <vishal.khanna@aitpl.co.in>]

Frank Swasey wrote:
> Today at 11:05am, Nitin k. wrote:
>
>
> > My question is what's the difference in getent and login as far as 
> > LDAP is concerned, if any AND Is PAM support imperative for the 
> > Login prog. to work with LDAP ?
>
>
> I'm not positive, but I'll hazard a guess that the difference is the 
> getent is using an anonymous bind and the login isn't (nor can it 
> really).

I think PAM support is imperative ... I do not see any other mechanism 
of getting to LDAP as what you use is saslauthd for ldap and this in 
turn uses pam.... perhaps I am wrong.. give me an idea of what exactly 
you are trying to achieve.  Are you trying to authenticate users on your 
box with LDAP or something else ?.
Authentication failure with LDAP in my case was happening because LDAP 
was storing crypt() passwords and I was sending out plain text when I 
resolved this problem from my clients it worked fine.



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