On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
> Ummmm.... I thought all those PAM modules required entries for the user
> with something like a * in the password field?
>
nope.... you just need the equivalent NSS module to allow libc to dig
up the relevant info. So if you're using pam_ldap to allow users to
authenticate via ldap, then if you have /lib/libnss.ldap.so libc can
automagically use ldap to fill in info about a user.
same for /etc, nis, mysql, etc.. they all need an nss module.
--paulj
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