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Re: NIS Logins using PAM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joerg Mertin)
Tue Nov 10 03:31:44 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 08:38:47 +0100
From: Joerg Mertin <smurphy@dspecialists.de>
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In-Reply-To: <36472F76.9431F2B2@binarycompass.com>; from Karl Asseily on Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 10:07:50AM -0800
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On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 10:07:50AM -0800, Karl Asseily wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have just set-up NIS as described in the HOWTO, but it says that I
> have to modify all pam_pwdb entries in /etc/pam.d/ to pam_unix_auth. Not
> only did it scare me to do that (maybe security is lessened?) but also
> when I tried to do it I got unable to resolve symbols.
It works with the plain pam-configuration files, only if your network
growth and you´ll got a lot of Users and groups, the group file size will
slowdown the login-procedure while it´s growing, since the pwdb-library is
very slow in parsing the group file, and parses it several times at login.
A pool with aprox. 10000 Users + 10000 group Entries, makes the login very
slow. At high server load, about 10 Minutes/User.
> Is there any way to make PAM work with NIS? I don't want to have to
> duplicate the password database manually every time :-(
But, if you use NIS anyway, You´ll have to modify all the files for tuning
purposes anyway...
Regards
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