Tim Dijkstra writes: > Additionally: PAM is used only for password validation. The home directory > and the user and group IDs for the account are still taken from the system > password file. > > Why is this?
Because that's the only thing PAM does: validate passwords. Ancillary stuff: the account's home directory, uid, and gid still have to come from somewhere. > Do you ignore the whole idea of nsswitch? I should be able to > get my uids/gids from where I like (for example NIS or LDAP) when I > configure nsswitch the right way... Or am I spoiled and is this a Linux I don't ignore anything. getpw/getgr is used to obtain the passwd/group record. Therefore, if you did indeed set up nsswitch correctly, the passwd/group information will come from someplace else. -- Sam _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
