On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:
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On 04/30/2009 12:52 AM, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
>>> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Stefan Schlesinger wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Apr 29, 2009, at 01:38 , Mike McGrath wrote:
>>>>> I'd like someone to write a pam module to auth against fas.
I'm not sure
>>>>> it's the way to go but I'd like to have something up and
running to test
>>>>> with to see how it behaves, how it deals with some failure
scenarios, etc.
>>>> I'm not sure what exactly you want to do, but pam_ldap should do
what
>>>> you want, right? Or at least one could use it as codebase and modify
it.
>>>>
>>> pam_ldap would probably be close to what we want and certainly a good
>>> place to look but we don't run an ldap server so it won't auth
against
>>> fas.
>>>
>> Well normally what I have seen is that the 'FAS' server would export a
>> schema table to LDAP and LDAP would then be what is authenticated to
>> (the same with Kerberos if combined). Or the FAS server has a
>> mysql/postgres background and someone uses pam/mod mysql to do it.
>>
>> The one problem with custom pam modules is usually the 'oooooooh'
>> moment when something doesn't work quite as planned (hey look I can
>> sudo root as apache? how did that happen?)
>>
>
> This is a legit and good concern. Ricky and I were talking about it last
> night. Since we're re-thinking things I'm open to suggestions. Might be
> something as simple as getting an ldap server to communicate with a
> postgres backend?
>
> -Mike
Sorry for butting in like this, but I always assumed FAS would use LDAP
as a backend, so that 3rd parties, if they wanted to plug in to the
system, would utilize LDAP. Is that not the case?
Correct, that's not the case. Instead of LDAP we have a postgres backend
and use json to auth, third parties use python-fedora to authenticate. We
tried pretty hard to get LDAP working with our account system but ran into
many problems and decided to go back to postgres.
-Mike