it.
Can I just convert the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow into LDAP database? How?
Or it is no way to do this?
Sarick
- Original Message -
From: Artur Hecker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: (2) Can LDAP be used to authenticate /etc
- Original Message -
From: Artur Hecker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: (2) Can LDAP be used to authenticate /etc/passwd ?
one more time: eap/md5 will not (can not) work with the information
available in the /etc/passwd and shadow
05-Dec-02 at 20:23, Sarick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote :
Hi Hecker,
I do know that EAP-MD5 is only capable of authenticating with plain text
info.
And now I know that to authenticate with the accounts on Linux server will
need additional database setup for users.
It is impossible to obtain
or actually if you can keep the /etc/passwd /etc/shadow syncronised with
LDAP that would also do the trick. Perhaps with a script you can convert
/etc/passwd /etc/shadow into LDAP or only the changed accounts etc. or
even syncronise the add/remove user functions both in LDAP and in system
files.
hi
evren: all that is useless - EAP-MD5 will need clear-text passwords.
/etc/passwd or shadow or whatsoever only stores a hash of it. it is not
going to work anyway.
a propos, sarick: the original question is a big strange mixture of
available incompatible techniques. you store your
- Original Message -
From: Artur Hecker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: (2) Can LDAP be used to authenticate /etc/passwd ?
hi
evren: all that is useless - EAP-MD5 will need clear-text passwords.
/etc/passwd or shadow or whatsoever only
