Server authentication

Jorge Delacruz alterthegrid at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 11 20:35:10 MST 2007


Excellent!  Thank you!

JD

--- "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Jorge Delacruz wrote:
> 
> >   Anyone ever hear of such a module or means that
> will reject logins if 
> > a user is not in the right group?  The users are
> authenticated against 
> > LDAP, not local files.  This is an access control
> (authorization) issue, 
> > not an authentication issue.
> 
> If you are using ssh server for logins, have a look
> at OpenSSH's 
> DenyGroups and AllowGroups configurations. OpenSSH
> uses getpwnam(3) to get 
> the details for the user to-be logged in.
> 
> So use nsswitch to use ldap for group (and other
> databases). Also setup 
> PAM to use pam_ldap.so also.
> 
>   Jeremy C. Reed
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Jorge Delacruz


       
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