[ILUG] mad ldap idea

[Niall Sheridan]

nsscache is also an option. http://code.google.com/p/nsscache/

 - Niall

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Niall Sheridan <nsheridan at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not a new idea but could be a bit heavyweight. Alternatives
> include pam_ccreds(http://www.padl.com/OSS/pam_ccreds.html) or a small
> shell script to dump your ldap accounts to passwd files periodically
> using 'getent passwd' and a bit of awk or somesuch.
>
>  - Niall
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Bernhard D Rohrer <graylion at sm-wg.net> wrote:
>> Hi guys
>>
>> I have been wondering about notebook users and ldap authentication. I am
>> thinking about notebooks that only have an admin user and apart from that
>> get all their users via LDAP. The basic mechanism that I am envisioning is
>> to install slapd on all notebooks and to use ldap replication to  master
>> server in order to keep things current. user directories would be
>> transferred via iServer. Has this ever been done before? am I off my cuff?
>> ;)
>>
>> A quick look at uncle google didn't turn up anything likely
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Bernhard
>>
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