Hello,
FreeBSD 4.x has no support to nsswitch, and even the -CURRENT supports
only very few, predefined methods such as files, nis, nisplus for user
authentication in nsswitch.conf. Dynamically loadable modules can't be
used, for example nss_ldap for authentication via LDAP.
There are patches to solve this problem at
http://www.nectar.com/freebsd/nsswitch
but only a part of them was built in to -CURRENT (the statical part).
Could anybody tell me why? This is a serious deficiency of FreeBSD which
has been solved on Linux for ages. Is there any security or other reason
not to implement a fully functional nsswitch feature into FreeBSD?
Is there anybody who use _properly working_ nsswitch and nss_ldap on
FreeBSD?
Is there anybody who can do authentication via LDAP on a FreeBSD box?
Best wishes,
Sandor Gyori
Technical University of Budapest
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