About nss_ldap

[Sondre Rønjom]

Well, I found out after a while that NSS-modules are not supported before 
5.1->. I could ofcourse just asked in /usr/ports/ned/nss_ldap/, which 
would give me the answer, instead of first upgrading from 4.8 to 5.0. 
Well, enough of nothing. I just wonder if anyone has any good sollution to 
my problem. Having 5.0-R(Had too many problems with 5.1-B1/B2 on this 
computer) and no support(might find a patch) for nss_modules, I wonder if 
anyone has found a good relatively stable sollution to my problem:

I have a network containing >20 computers with different operating 
systems, mostly MSWindows-distros. All the computers authenticate against 
a samba server which maps their home_directory. Now, what I want to do( 
please feel free to give out a better sollution!) is to authenticate 
against LDAP. But without support of nss-modules I got the impression it 
is difficult to do so. I have managed to authenticate against LDAP on my 
test-box through login, but it does not give me a session - falls back on 
pam_unix. I have looked at radius too, and people are talking about using 
NIS for it also, but I'm quite unsure about this.

Wow!, sorry about the long posting by the way.
PS! I must reccomend reading "Starship Titanic" by Terry Jones while Im at 
it

Sondre