OK, I've reached that (long postponed) point of my life where I *HAVE* to ditch /etc/passwd and /etc/group in favor of storing my users in a database. Any database...
Unless there is a *COMPELLING* reason not to, I will store my users in Postgres, but I don't see why generic concepts should not be applied to *ANY* database. All I find in the howto's is how to install (laundry list here), but what I need is a fairly general cookbook about how-to-configure-what to allow my machine to validate users contained in my database. Most of this howto's are useless to my because I run LFS and it right there voids any reference to apt-get/yum/rpm/etc. Furthermore, I want to login with my trusted /etc/passwd - /etc/group combination when I SSH into (or console) into my machine and I want the "other" users (people hosting WEB sites and/or receiving e-mail) be authenticated against the Postgres table. So the final question is: What do I need? specifically, do I need PAM? (Probably...) What do I configure? I don't need too many details, I just need something along the lines of: You need this list of packages and you need to edit this configuration files to accomplish (fill in the blanks) Lisa? :) HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Enrique --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
