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Re: users on db ?



On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 10:25:15AM +0200, Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
> The Reason is I can maintain mail users and radius users on the same DB
> without duplication and with great administration ability.

RADIUS is an authentication server, and you can use the
radius PAM module to authenticate against it, but it still
won't provide the user lookup facilities (and most servers
will try to find the user prior to authenticating).

If you want your whole system seeing users in a MySQL
table as local users, you might want to check out the
NSS mysql modules (search Freshmeat for "NSS mysql"),
which you could later add into /etc/nsswitch.conf.

Otherwise, you'd end up patching/configuring every new
service you add.

-- 
Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov

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