Re: [Astlinux-users] LDAP authentication

[Kristian K. <kri...@gm...>]

On 3/5/07, Lenir Santiago <fla...@ya...> wrote:
> we have about 20 boxes in client offices which we manage for them, and what
> we want to do is prevent root access via ssh (for security) and use a
> maintenance account (or one for each of our techs) to login to the box if we
> need to and if we ever need to change a password (or all passwords) we can
> do it at the ldap server. Also if its easier, radius would also work for us.
>
>

Hmmm...

  That is interesting.

  The real problem is going to be that uClibc and all of the other
base components of AstLinux don't support NSS or PAM.  Those things
are usually not required (or wanted) in embedded systems.

  I like Bryce's SSH key idea.

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Kristian Kielhofner