Re: (RADIATOR) Sendmail Radiator
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 + 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 === Archive at http://www.thesite.com.au/~radiator/ To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message. Valentin Tumarkin Xpert Trusted Systems === Archive at http://www.thesite.com.au/~radiator/ To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.
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 + 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 === Archive at http://www.thesite.com.au/~radiator/ To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message. Valentin Tumarkin Xpert Trusted Systems === Archive at http://www.thesite.com.au/~radiator/ To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.
Re: (RADIATOR) Sendmail Radiator
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 + 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 + 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 === Archive at http://www.thesite.com.au/~radiator/ To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message. Valentin Tumarkin Xpert Trusted Systems === Archive at http://www.thesite.com.au/~radiator/ To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.
Re: (RADIATOR) Sendmail Radiator
Hey, just curious here. Why do you want people to authenticate from Radiator instead of the password file? I'm just curious, I don't know what your problem is. Thinking you might have a neat application I haven't thought of... Hi Chris, I'm using Radmin which has a nice www interface, it easy for my support reps to add new users. Radmin only supports authentication from the database. Authentication from the database gives me on point to set the access policies for my whole system. These are the sort of things that make the use of a database attractive. Sendmail does not appear to know about PAM though, unless there is a patch I don't know about. Cheers. Paul === Archive at http://www.thesite.com.au/~radiator/ To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.
