Michelle Konzack writes:
Again:
+---[ man 'authlib' ]----------------------------------------------
|
| authpam
| authenticates using the system's PAM library (plug
| gable authentication module). This is, essen
| tially, a way to use existing PAM modules for
| authentication functionality. Note, however, that
| the authenticated account's home directory, userid
| and groupid are still read from the /etc/passwd
| file, since PAM functionality is limited to vali
| dating account passwords.
+------------------------------------------------------------------
Why does this module does not use "libnss", which does the
job for /etc/passwd. I think, authpam should use libnss.
Any developer comments?
Adding "libnss" will solv all problems, because I am using
"libnss-pgsql". And because "courier" does not support it,
I need to sync several times daily 86 Mailservers manualy
with this stupid /etc/passwd.
I challenge you to find any application written for Linux that "supports"
libnss.
You won't find any.
libnss is an internal glibc library, used by glibc's getpw() and getgr()
functions. You specify which modules you want to resolve userids and
groupids by setting up your nsswitch.conf correctly.
If you set up nsswitch.conf to use pgsql, all applications, including
authdaemon, should end up querying pgsql for all userid/groupid lookups.
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