Needs Help with Samba to authenticate to NDS

Chris Tooley ctooley at joslyn.org
Tue Jun 13 20:52:52 GMT 2000


su is an unfair example isn't it?  I would assume that there would be a
different command to do such a thing.  However, as I've never used NDS
on Solaris I don't know for sure.

Chris Tooley

"Christopher R. Hertel" wrote:
> 
> Using PAM seems to defeat the purpose.  Novell is trying to sell NDS as a
> single-signon solution for multiple platforms.  This is similar to what you can
> do with Kerberos, NIS, etc.  If the normal Unix mechanisms don't work then it's
> likely a bug in the NDS client on Solaris.
> 
> Sarabjit:
> Just out of curiosity, can you use 'su' to change from a native Unix account to
> an NDS account?
> 
> Chris -)-----
> 
> On Jun 13,  1:15pm, Nadeem Hasan wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Needs Help with Samba to authenticate to NDS
> > How about using pam_ldap module with NDS? NDS will talk LDAP to
> > an LDAP client. check out http://www.padl.com/
> >
> > Nadeem
> >
> > Sarabjit Singh wrote:
> > >
> > <snip>
> > > In a nutshell -
> > >
> > > How do we get Samba to authenticate to NDS (instead of /etc/passwd as it is
> doing now)?
> > > Is what we are trying to do possible and if so, how and what do we have to
> do to achieve it?
> > > Many Thanks
> > >
> > > Sarabjit
> > >
> >
> >-- End of excerpt from Nadeem Hasan
> 
> --
> Christopher R. Hertel -)-----                   University of Minnesota
> crh at nts.umn.edu              Networking and Telecommunications Services


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