Re: LDAP authenticaton against PAM how-to

[Tim Tassonis <timtas@cubic.ch>]

Howard Chu wrote:
> Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I banged my head on OpenLDAP -> SASL -> PAM for two days. The status of
> > the documentation is really horrible. Until someone eventually fix that,
> > here is for future reference what I had to do (the NetBSD system parts
> > are out of topic, but I added them for the sake of completeness)
>
> I wouldn't expect to find much documentation on this topic because in 
> general it's the wrong thing to do. What distributed authentication 
> system do you use that is supported by pam but is not supported directly 
> by LDAP or SASL?

Also, postgresql comes to my mind. It supports pam, but not ldap directly.

Even more importantl<, OS Authentication on Linux (and other unices) 
supports PAM, but not openldap...

Tim