On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:34:57PM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote (wyy sez):
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 at 22:22, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote:
>
> > 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. :)
>
hmmm. i know that this feature was available only for the newer
openldap-2 something which is actually LDAPv3. i have not configured
one yet but the procedure is outline in the openldap documentation.
> 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
>
the X login managers still need a userbase. normally they are configured
to us PAM in redhat or redhat like distros.
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