hi, there!
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote:
> Following up on my own post:
>
> For LDAP to be seamlessly integrated into the system some of the libraries
> have to be changed. Specifically the ones dealing with /etc/passwd and
> user information.
>
> I've decided the best way to do this is to do what's done with NIS.
> Basically handle the case where the user is not available in the local
> databases.
>
> the idea is to have an entry in the /etc/passwd enabling LDAP lookups.
> the Entry would be of the form
>
> ldap:*:389:389:o=My Organization, c=BR:uid:ldap.myorg.com
> ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> | | | |
> port base dn attr LDAP Server
>
> This comes ftom a pam_ldap module I got from Pedro A M Vazquez
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I'll change all of the function in lib/libc/gen/getpwent.c to handle this
> special case.
>
> The only problem is that openldap has to be integrated on the base system
> for this to compile... can I safely copy it to /usr/src/contrib?
>
> How do I submit this after it's done? anyone cares about ldap :)?
aargh. looks horrible to me. better try to implement NSS
/fjoe
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