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Wednesday July 03, 2002
01:03 PM
Extending suEXEC via LDAP
When I do suEXEC type things, I need to get my valid uid/gid info from an LDAP server. The users on my system are not
Does anyone know of any sort of solutions for this? It seems like it's not too far out there to be useful for lots of people.
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This should be transparent (Score:1)
LDAP can replace /etc/passwd and /etc/groups on some unix machines. In the same way that NIS depends on /etc/nsswitch.conf to intercept OS system calls, LDAP uses nsswitch.conf for the same purpose. That said, I don't have a *reliable* example of /etc/nsswitch.conf to show you. There are aspects of that file I don't grok. Do a google search for 'single sign-on' and you should find some relevant material.
Good luck. I think that robust LDAP support under Unix could be the key to remov
Re:This should be transparent (Score:2)
*shrug*
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Re:This should be transparent (Score:1)