Hi Jon. Look i'm in your situation, searching for documents about this authentication stuff, i have follow this threat, i just want to know if u already have done this and what was your results.
Thanks!!! On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 05:45:33PM -0500, Darek M. wrote: > > Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: > > >I have googled for a very long time, but I haven't found any useful > > >howto on this issue. Well, there is > > > >http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/FreeBSD/docs/Quick_and_dirty_FreeBSD_5_x_and_nss_ldap_mini-HOWTO.html > > >but that seems to be a bit confusing an not up-to-date. I guess it > > >_should_ be possible - and indeed very useful (especially combinde > > >with Samba PDC and an easily maintainlable mail server). So please, if > > >you have any experiences or knowledge of a useful description..! > > > > > >Regards, > > >Jon Theil Nielsen > > > > At the risk of a thread-jack... > > > > how are home directories handled? Will 'user' have a home dir on the > > local system? I suppose once LDAP is set up properly, you can then > > create the home dir, then chown it 'user', with 'user' not being a local > > user and not in passwd/master.passwd files. So when you chown/chgrp, > > those commands go through pam/nss/ldap to retrieve the proper id and > > name from the LDAP server? > > There's security/pam_mkhomedir, which should do what you want. > > > Cheers. > -- > Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "We laugh in the face of danger, we drop icecubes down the vest of fear" > - Edmond Blackadder III > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"