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Re: [edlug] xserver ldap su question
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Gallagher, Kevin wrote:
> This all takes sometime. For some reason it doesn't want to look at the
> local files for Root although the nsswitch.conf states "passwd: files
> ldap". Any thoughts?
You probably want to be using pam_ldap to control the authentication step.
This allows authentication to work where the LDAP server doesn't give
unbound users access to the password data.
Take a look at pam_ldap and the contents of /etc/pam.d/system-auth
Cheers,
Simon.
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