Using a different User Database

[Ruben de Groot]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:09:48PM -0800, Loren M. Lang typed:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:32:34PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:04:36PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote:
> > 
> > > > You may want to start by looking into the net/nss_ldap and security/pam_ldap
> > > > ports.  Beyond that, I don't know what to tell you.
> > > 
> > > nss_ldap claims it requires freebsd 5.1 or newer when I try to install
> > > it, if there is someway to be able to still use it on freebsd, I
> > > would like to know.
> > 
> > Er, install FreeBSD 5.1 or newer to use it on FreeBSD.
> 
> This is a production mail server in an enviroment mixed with win2k
> file servers that share the same users.  Would FreeBSD 5.2 be stable
> enough to use or is there another alternative?  Perhaps something not
> requiring nss?
 
We've been using 5.x in production on different boxes since 5.1 because we
needed the nss_* functionality. It's been nothing but stable (especially
compared to the win2k servers they have to communicate with).

Your mileage may vary, but I'd say go for it.

Ruben

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> > Kris
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