Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] NIS authentication
From: Ben Payne (bpayne@cs.ucr.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 17 1997 - 17:42:56 EST
I decided to scroll threw auth.c in the 1.4b2 source and it appears that
all requests for user info go threw libc. (getpwnam, etc...) So as long as
you have a libc working with NIS you should be fine with netatalk, which
means if the user can log into the server they should beable to login w/
netatalk. BTW - I normally run the asun patch which does support PAM.
-> Ben
At 04:13 PM 11/17/97 -0600, Matt Isleb wrote:
>
>On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Ben Payne wrote:
>
>> it was always my understanding that netatalk either used libc or pam to do
>> all authentication (depending on compile options) and since both support
>> NIS this shouldn't be a problem. Please let me know if I'm wrong, since I
>> will be doing the same soon.
>>
>> -> Ben Payne
>
>It doesn't use PAM, that is for sure. Well the distributed one
>doesn't anyway. There is a redhat rpm version that is hacked to use PAM.
>You can find at your favorite redhat/contrib/i386/RPMS directory structure.
>
>I have NIS and as far as I can tell, users that
>exist via NIS can't login to the netatalk server. I may have done
>somethign wrong tho.
>
>Matt
>
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