2011/4/16 Arthur de Jong <[email protected]>: > On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 14:35 -0500, Madhusudan Singh wrote: >> Can you give me some details of this ? > > nss-pam-ldapd is an alternative to nss_ldap and pam_ldap provided by > PADL. Some distributions have packages for it but you should also be > able to install from source. The NSS and PAM modules can be built > separately. > > The nss-pam-ldapd homepage contains some documentation and downloads: > http://arthurdejong.org/nss-pam-ldapd/ > >> I do not want to mess up a working authentication mechanism if I can >> avoid it. > > Authentication is provided by the PAM module but also requires the NSS > module to be functional. The NSS module provides home directory, shell, > etc. Configuration of nss_ldap and pam_ldap varies per distribution > (/etc/ldap.conf, /etc/nss_ldap.conf,...). For nss-pam-ldapd a single > file /etc/nslcd.conf provides the configuration for both modules. > > -- > -- arthur - [email protected] - http://arthurdejong.org -- >
Also, if that workstation only is used by a couple of users, a quick workaround would be to add users to /etc/passwd like this: --- +user123:::::/home/CAMPUS/user123: --- That worked for me in openSUSE 11.3 and 11.4. Regards, Ciro -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --
