OK, I've reached that (long postponed) point of my life where I *HAVE* to
ditch /etc/passwd and /etc/group in favor of storing my users in a database.
Any database...
Unless there is a *COMPELLING* reason not to, I will store my users in
Postgres, but I don't see why generic concepts should not be applied to
*ANY* database.
All I find in the howto's is how to install (laundry list here), but what I
need is a fairly general cookbook about how-to-configure-what to allow my
machine to validate users contained in my database.
Most of this howto's are useless to my because I run LFS and it right there
voids any reference to apt-get/yum/rpm/etc.
Furthermore, I want to login with my trusted /etc/passwd - /etc/group
combination when I SSH into (or console) into my machine and I want the
"other" users (people hosting WEB sites and/or receiving e-mail) be
authenticated against the Postgres table.
So the final question is:
What do I need?
specifically, do I need PAM? (Probably...)
What do I configure?
I don't need too many details, I just need something along the lines of:
You need this list of packages and you need to edit this configuration files
to accomplish (fill in the blanks)
Lisa? :)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Enrique
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