Can you give me some details of this ? I do not want to mess up a working authentication mechanism if I can avoid it.
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Arthur de Jong <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 09:51 -0500, Madhusudan Singh wrote: > > The client is an OpenSuSE 11.2 machine that has a nss_ldap installed > > (along with pam_ldap). The IT folks also installed a binary-only > > module that permits the authentication to the University LDAP server. > > That is why I am using an old version of OpenSuSE. > > You could give nss-pam-ldapd a try and copy the config from nss_ldap and > pam_ldap. It has a fancy syntax to overwrite certain attributes. E.g. > you could give all LDAP users a local home directory with > map passwd homeDirectory /home/CAMPUS/$uid > > You can keep using pam_ldap if you like. Information about home > directories, user names, etc are provided by the NSS module, the PAM > module is responsible for authentication and password change. > > -- > -- arthur - [email protected] - http://arthurdejong.org -- >
