On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 at 22:22, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote:
> wow, talk about humongous post.
Eep, I noticed. I'm normally like this when there's so much going on in my
mind that I find it hard to streamline my thoughts. My apologies. And more
importantly, my thanks for reading the post despite its length. :)
> PAM->LDAP->GDB (LDAP uses GDB as its default storage container)
> PAM->LDAP->RDBMS (of course, you can tell LDAP to use something else)
This is interesting. I've never set up LDAP with an RDBMS backend. Would
you know if it can store data on a local PostgreSQL server? It will be
possible for me to create a local user for LDAP and have the connection go
through Unix sockets. I wonder how that will perform compared to GDB. The
latter seems to be pretty stable as it is, though. :)
I have an alternative thought to PAM-LDAP authentication, though. Since I
do not need to allow users to log in via the console (only root will have
to do that) I wonder if the X-based login managers can handle logging on
to a remote X box. The login manager normally runs as some user anyway to
begin with. I was thinking something in the line of this:
Client X server --> Login Manager --> Remote X box (server?) with apps
Hmm...I'm totally lost. Hehehe. ;>
--> Jijo
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