Quoting Dan Melomedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > > Quoting "Michael Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Hello everybody, > > > > > > I have installed qmail on Red Hat 8 and want to proceed further. My > > > requirements are > > > > > > 1. LDAP authentication > > > > LibPAM/LDAP and LibNSS/LDAP... > > And both suck, there's got to be a better way.
True, but it's the easiest and least intrusive way. If you don't want them, you make sure that ANY (!!) service you'd like to have LDAP support have this built in. There's A LOT of services.... And when/if you go to another authentication service (SASL, Kerberos etc), they those services need support for that as well... LibNSS/LDAP is quite harmless, it doesn't do any (?) AUTHENTICATION (ie passwords on the wire), it only looks up uid/uidnumber etc (basic information on who you are). I personaly wish I could get rid of LibPAM/LDAP, but it's to much of a hassle, so it stays (for now). -- arrangements Treasury tritium Marxist genetic colonel Peking radar explosion domestic disruption ammonium SEAL Team 6 bomb congress BATF [See http://www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/index.html for more about this]
