Re: System-Authentification

[David J N Begley <david@avarice.nepean.uws.edu.au>]

On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Stefan Kiesow wrote:

> which is the easiest way to implement an authentification via LDAP?

s/authentification/authentication/

> I've read several pages concerning LDAP_PAM, but I can't find a good
> description how to implement and use it.

While it could be debated that it isn't really all that "good" (and hasn't
been updated in the past couple of weeks like it should have been), a sample
project using PADL Software's pam_ldap and nss_ldap modules (tested against
OpenLDAP) can be found here:

  http://www.nepean.uws.edu.au/users/david/qn99/

> What do I need? How do I have to install the software under Linux? Is
> there a sendmail-LDAP-Module?

There are two ways to use LDAP within Sendmail:

- an external lookup utility (eg., mail500);  or,

- compile Sendmail and link it with an LDAP client library.

For more information on the second option, see:

  http://www.sendmail.org/compiling.html#LDAP

The newsgroup comp.mail.sendmail would be a useful place to visit with
Sendmail-specific LDAP questions (at least, to the point of getting it up and
running).

Cheers..


dave