Re: Remote Authentication
This is a discussion on Re: Remote Authentication within the comp.unix.solaris forums, part of the Solaris Operating System category; --> MrPaul wrote: > I have many solaris servers with approx 30,000 user accounts. > Currently, I'm generating a new ...
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 Re: Remote Authentication MrPaul wrote: > I have many solaris servers with approx 30,000 user accounts. > Currently, I'm generating a new passwd/shadow file every 5 minutes > from a MySQL database. I feel this is somewhat less than efficient. > > I looked at PAM for authentication but unfortunately, that doesn't > really solve my problem because from what I gather PAM doesn't pass > any info back other than is the user/pass pair valid. This means I > still need to maintain the passwd file for home dir, shell, etc... > > What do you think the best solution would be. All this info is > readilly available from the MySQL database and Radius. > > Thanks for any insight you can provide. > Paul Ever look at LDAP? Works with Radius: http://docs.sun.com/source/806-4252-10/mapping.htm      |
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