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 > <vazq...@iqm.unicamp.br> > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
