Re: [webmin-l] Webmin Users <-> NIS Users

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 23/May/2006 08:08 Marc Petitmermet wrote ..
> Dear List Members
> 
> Is it true that webmin does not support NIS users as webmin users?  
> When I choose "Convert Users" I can choose from NIS users but when I  
> start "Convert now" the chosen user is not in the presented list; it  
> seems that only local users are in this list.

That is correct, Webmin cannot convert NIS users to its own internal
users as it cannot get their passwords using the standard getpw* functions.

However, there is another option called 'Unix user authenticatioin' which
you can use to allow Unix users (from /etc/passwd, NIS or LDAP) to login
to Webmin. However, it depends on the Authen::PAM perl module being installed,
and /etc/pam.d/webmin being set up.

 - Jamie