Re: Accessing remote machines

2003-10-20 Thread mimo
You can still use local users even if you use pam (+nsswitch will be necessary). You specify this in nsswitch.conf. Also, you can configure the pam config files so that it allows both local (unix) and ldap users. You shouldnt need to drop the firewall at certain times. mimo Giacomo A. Catenazz

Accessing remote machines

2003-10-20 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Hello. I want to hack PAM authentification in a remote machine (moving to pam_ldap), but I want to be sure to continue to access the machine if something go wrong. So I ask you: How do you handle special access to remote machines? For firewall hacking I used 'cron' to disable the firewalls at a