Martin.
The RADIUS part can be accomplished via PAM (via authpam in authdaemon).
However, I think you are right about the rest of the user's information
(UID, Homedir, etc...) having to be located via NSS (not technically
/etc/passwd, but NSS, at least on Linux).  Now.  If you want your users
to be completely virtual, you'll probably want to use authmysql or more
likely authuserdb, and read the docs at
http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/authlib.html

I don't /think/ you can combine authentication via PAM but get the
other stuff via authuserdb.  Somebody please correct me on this if I'm
wrong.

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Martin A. Brown wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I would like to use the authpam authentication module in a new
> configuration.  I'll get a yes/no from my Radius server, but I'd prefer
> not to have my users in /etc/passwd (or NIS/LDAP for that matter). Users
> should be completely virtual, in the manner of authuserdb or authvchkpw.
> 
> Snipped from http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/authlib.html, the paragraph
> below, is a summary of the behaviour from authpam I would like to
> circumvent with a separate virtual domain configuration.
> 
>     Note, however, that the authenticated account's home
>     directory userid and groupid are still read from the
>     /etc/passwd file, since PAM functionality is limited
>     to validating account passwords.
> 
> Does anybody have a recommendation for how I could arrange this sort of
> configuration?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> -Martin
> 
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