free BSD An Approach for Using LDAP as a Network Information Service

2008-03-13 Thread Eddie C
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2307.html It seems to me that netgroups over LDAP is a powerful concept. From my research into free BSD 6.2 and freeBSD 7.0 it seems that the /etc/nsswitch.conf does not support the netgroups: database. Is there any initiative to implement the functionality of the RFC?

NSCD cached Enterprise LDAP login

2008-03-04 Thread Eddie C
All, My goal is to allow authentication SSH and sudo access though use of an LDAP server. I have configured PAM to connect though to our LDAP server and it is successful using LDAP as a user base. However, I can only find scattered documentation on cached/nscd. Having the name service catching is