Re: unified login (unix + windows)

[David Nugent <davidn@austel.net>]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Albert Steiner wrote:

> How do the pam_ldap and nss_ldap check the password.  Do they request
> a copy of the password, or attempt a login into LDAP?

>From browsing the source a few days ago, I noted that pam_ldap requires
the rootdn and password. Presumably it can support hashing or other
password schemes if it does the authentication itself instead of the LDAP
server, but imho this is an incorrect approach, and would definitely incur
more overhead than is strictly necessary.