password history ability with pam?

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 10:52 -0700, Dan Lund wrote:
> No, not using LDAP. (the actual Linux logons are isolated to
> developers and admins)  Until recently our LDAP solution was a bit....
> buggy.  We went with a company named Symas who sells a solution built
> around OpenLDAP (essentially OpenLDAP with code optimizations and
> off-the-shelf integration of Windows domain synchronization), and then
> our coders snagged it and started adding their own hooks into the BDB
> files when creating a GUI for helpdesk.
> It's a complicated story, but basically I just kept an island unto
> myself because of the flux of power-struggles. *shrugs*  I don't do
> politics, and you know how that is.
> We've since replaced Symas LDAP with Active Directory.  I've authed a
> couple of machines against AD just to say "hey, yeah, it can be done,
> look at xyz" but it's a convoluted process of kerberos and ldap
> through pam.
> 
> I'm going to look into what Richard and TJ said.  Thanks guys, I
> appreciate it.  Thanks for the URLs!
> 
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for a bit of history/politics - Symas provides much of the development
code for openldap

As for the convoluted process...somewhat - samba 4 will probably ease
out some of the convolution but that is down the road.

Craig