Authentication problems with ldap

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Mon Sep 22 20:15:46 UTC 2008


On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 09:23:34PM +0400, Dan Yefimov wrote:

> You must use pam_ldap.so module in order to be able to authenticate against 
> LDAP servers since pam_unix.so doesn't use NSS.

Er, false.  pam_unix *does* use NSS for authentication; the only thing it
can't use NSS for is password changing.

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