Re: [webmin-devel] external account authentication

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

Hugo Cornelis wrote ..
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> 
> If I am correct, accounts external to Webmin must be
> created locally and flagged as being external.  Webmin
> will then use the external authenticator to
> authenticate these accounts.
> 
> Is there any way to dynamically synchronize external
> accounts with Webmin accounts ?  Actually, I do not
> want to have any local account for the ones that need
> to be authenticated by an external authentication
> layer.

It is possible to configure Webmin to allow any external
account (typically Unix users) to login. This can be set up
in the Webmin Users module, on the 'Configure Unix user
authentication' page. The only down side is that all these users
will have the same Webmin permissions ..

 - Jamie