No.
PAM is a library for authentication. PAM takes information from NSS,
and not vice-versa.
To make it simple: it's not enough to have your users in the radius
database, you should also put them in /etc/passwd or NIS or
LDAP database+nss_ldap modules.
About NSS from Solaris 2.6 nsswitch.conf(4) man page:
The operating system uses a number of "databases" of infor-
mation about hosts, users (passwd/shadow), groups and so
forth. Data for these can come from a variety of sources:
host-names and host-addresses, for example, may be found in
/etc/hosts, NIS, NIS+, or DNS. Zero or more sources may be
used for each database; the sources and their lookup order
are specified in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file.
Example:
NSS is responsible for translating usernames to numeric user-id's
and back. PAM does not know anything about that.
You should really go read the man pages and the documentation at
http://www.padl.com
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Paul Black wrote:
> Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 11:58:05 +0000
> From: Paul Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Valentin Tumarkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) Sendmail & Radiator
>
> This sounds interesting. Does the NSS/LDAP module support PAM, ie, can it be
> made to authenticate via Radiator? I'm trying to setup a system where the
> Radiator database is the source of customer authentication information. Thanks
> for your help.
>
> Regards. Paul
>
>
>
> Valentin Tumarkin wrote:
> >
> > I think your problem is that your 'system' does not know of your users
> > existence. Having configured PAM is not enough, you need to make your
> > unix 'system' aware of your users via Name Service.
> >
> > Example: If you are using LDAP, you can install the nss_ldap module
> > from http://www.padl.com
> > And then put something like this in /etc/nsswitch.conf
> > (Solaris,Linux)
> >
> > passwd: files ldap
> > shadow: files ldap
> > group: files ldap
> >
> > > Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 23:33:54 +0000
> > > From: Paul Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: (RADIATOR) Sendmail & Radiator
> > >
> > > I've now got my POP server authenticating from Radiator and I thought I would
> > > be ready to go ahead and use authentication from a database. When I tried to
> > > send an email to a test user in the Radiator database I received an error
> > > message from sendmail. The message said that the test user did not exist, ie
> > > he was not in the password file.
> > >
> > > Has anyone come across this problem before and managed to solve it?
> > >
> > > Regards. Paul
> > >
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> > Valentin Tumarkin
> >
> > Xpert Trusted Systems
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