Re: Question about system accounts in LDAP.

2003-08-14 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 01:50, Fred Clausen wrote: > Hi All, > > I am in the process of deploying openldap for authentication. I am just > not sure what the best policy is for including system account like root, > daemon, lp, etc. in LDAP. Should they be there for consistency across > systems? Or wi

Re: Question about system accounts in LDAP.

2003-08-14 Thread Васил Колев
На ?, 2003-08-12 в 16:43, Stephane Bortzmeyer записа: > I do not really see why you want that (I suspect you should use groups > instead) but that's what PAM is for. Just put different things in > /etc/pam.d/ssh and /etc/pam.d/imap. I have a question about the pam thing ... I had to make sshd to a

Re: Question about system accounts in LDAP.

2003-08-14 Thread Korey Renner
I am not an expert. In fact, all my attempts at LDAP have been frusterated by authentication issues, but here is my take. The goal for LDAP authentication is to have consistent user accounts across a network of machines. System accounts do not need to roam like user accounts in this scenario. O

Question about system accounts in LDAP.

2003-08-14 Thread Fred Clausen
Hi All, I am in the process of deploying openldap for authentication. I am just not sure what the best policy is for including system account like root, daemon, lp, etc. in LDAP. Should they be there for consistency across systems? Or will they just cause confusion by having the same system accoun

Re: Question about system accounts in LDAP.

2003-08-14 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 02:38, Korey Renner wrote: > I am not an expert. In fact, all my attempts at LDAP have been > frusterated by authentication issues, but here is my take. http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?LDAPAuthentication Most questions answered... the ones that aren't you can answer yourse

Re: Question about system accounts in LDAP.

2003-08-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:15:17AM +0200, Leonardo Boselli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 23 lines which said: > I am thinking about ist: is possible to use the ldap authentication > for ALL BUT imap and ftp (that should use the passwd file I do not really see why you want that (

Re: Question about system accounts in LDAP.

2003-08-14 Thread Leonardo Boselli
I woul use a different password for crypted and uncrypted channels ! On 12 Aug 2003, at 15:43, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:15:17AM +0200, > Leonardo Boselli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > a message of 23 lines which said: > > > I am thinking about ist: is possible to

Re: Question about system accounts in LDAP.

2003-08-14 Thread Jon Wood
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 00:58, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 01:50, Fred Clausen wrote: [...snip...] > > > > What would you guys suggest is the best practice? > > In general its inadvisable to have system users in LDAP; when LDAP > breaks you can't even log in at the console as root

Re: Question about system accounts in LDAP.

2003-08-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:13:29PM +0300, ? ? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 35 lines which said: > that, to have the session and etc. things, i need to use the NSS system > (/etc/nsswitch.conf) with the nss-pgsql module, not the PAM stuff Of course, because some functions do n

Re: Question about system accounts in LDAP.

2003-08-12 Thread Leonardo Boselli
On 12 Aug 2003, at 9:58, Donovan Baarda wrote: > In general its inadvisable to have system users in LDAP; when LDAP > breaks you can't even log in at the console as root. > The default LDAP migration script in the debian migrationtools does > not migrate all users below UID 1000 and groups below GI