a new ideia...if i change the authpam courrier module(and the
authpwenumerate module) to get the maildir,home,etc from another way, and i
use the pam module just for validate the account, it's ok?
2010/11/25 Álvaro Leão <[email protected]>:
> thank's again Sam...
> I know about the limits of Pam...my ideia was made something to
> returns the metadata, like the getpwname() ...i need to implement this
> in a debian lenny...i dont know yet if i can configure getpwname() in
> debian, but, i'll read about it...
>
> Chris St Denis
>>
>> Take a look at "man nsswitch.conf"
>>
>> You may be able to get something along the lines of what you want with
>> NIS or other nsswitch backend.
>>
> It's my next shot...my boss ideia is authenticate our email with pam
> to get some independency in authentication metod...in fact, we have
> our own authentication program, which, in theory, need to "talk" with
> pam...but i'm a c/java developer, not a linux master(yet!),so, i've
> more questions than anyone...
>
> but you are really helping...
>
>
>
>
> Álvaro César Leão Teixeira
>
>
>
> 2010/11/25 Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]>:
>> Álvaro Leão writes:
>>
>>> there's no way with any changes in pam modules/configuration too?
>>>
>>> thank's :)
>>
>> No. The PAM library knows nothing about anyone's home directory, or
anything
>> else other than authentication credentials. The PAM library is an API
that
>> validates authentication credentials, and identifies the authenticated
user.
>>
>> Ancillary metadata, such as home directory, userid, groupid, and other
>> attributes, are outside of PAM's scope, and must be sourced via some
other
>> way.
>>
>> The PAM module in courier-authlib uses the PAM library to validate the ID
>> and the password, then uses getpwname() to retrieve the account's home
>> directory, userid and groupid. If, on your system, you can configure
>> getpwname() to retrieve that info from somewhere else, then you can do
>> whatever you can do, there.
>>
>> Otherwise, if you want to retrieve the home directory, the userid and
>> groupid from some other place, but use PAM authentication, you can write
>> your own courier-authlib module to do just that.
>>
>>
>>
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