LDAP status

[Chris Tomlinson]

On 25-Nov-98 Jean Francois Micouleau wrote:
>
> If Samba uses the samba Schema+the RFC 2307 Schema, then you don't
> necessary require the use of the unix security, as the Unix infos are
> stored in the LDAP database. This case supposes that the unix machine also
> uses some LDAP backend for Unix security (either as a LDAP-NIS client or
> by the libc-nss LDAP extension).

This is where I was assuming that good use could be made of:

    SAMBA \
           \
            LDAP (Common schema)
           /
      PAM /


I realize that very few systems (at present) support PAM but...

ciao,
Christine Tomlinson