config mysql with Linux PAM for SSH

Fajar A. Nugraha fajar at fajar.net
Thu Oct 9 08:28:11 CEST 2008


Alan DeKok wrote:
> BADAOUI Nasr-Eddine (P) wrote:
>   
>> I've seen that to authenticate successfully, the login id has to be
>> defined locally on client Linux machines.
>>  
>> In summary, is it mandatory to have the login id defined in the client
>> linux machine ?
>> other solutions ?
>>     
>
>   That's the way PAM works.  There is apparently a way to define uid's
> && gid's via PAM, 
If you want centralized uid/gid and passwords (ala Active Directory),
NIS or NSS might help.
One interesting example is http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/nss-mysql
I don't think there's nss-radius though.

Regards,

Fajar
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