On 2004-03-03 19:31:32+0100, Herman Robak wrote: : Having unsynchronised admin passwords for Webmin and LDAP : is fraught with problems. Once inside Webmin, the admin : should be authenticated well enough for the tasks that : can be performed through Webmin.
I fully agree that unsyncronized password are a bad thing. I just want to make sure that root _NEVER_ is authenticated directly against ldap. That would be a big problem if ldap dies. Some kind of replication from /etc/passwd to ldap should be posible to make. Rune(sk) -- �I came out of it dead broke, without a house, without anything except a girlfriend and a knowledge of Unix.� �Well, that's something. Normally those two are mutually exclusive� - Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
