Re: Security mixup

["Gleb Paharenko" <gpaharenko () gmail com>]

Hi.

This a bit not clear. If your application can get users only from
password file, but you want it to get users from directory? Are you
sure
that it directly reads /etc/passwd but not uses getpwent library
calls? In case of library calls have you tried to use PAM and
nsswitch.conf?
In case it directy reads /etc/passwd it seems there is nothing to do,
except exporting though cron the list of users in /etc/passwd (or run
it chrooted environment with separe /etc/passwd).

2008/7/26  <naraharirao_kasturi () yahoo com>:
> Our standard security system is Novell eDirectory (with LDAP extensions) with java as standard platform. All the 
> current applications arte based on this. One vendor is  trying to load a C application and wants to use UNIX password 
> file.  How to accommodate this?



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