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Re: [Nss-mysql-users] nss-mysql-root.conf
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Jason Clifford |
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Re: [Nss-mysql-users] nss-mysql-root.conf |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Jun 2002 14:20:50 +0100 (BST) |
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > No you do not. I have set up nss-mysql here and I've got vsftpd
> > authenticating via the usual pam_unix module without any problems
> > whatsoever - same for every other service I have running here.
> Wouldn't it be very insecure to do so - since using pam_unix would make
> it necessary to include the password of the user (althought encrypted) in
> the global nss directory - for which every user can write programs.
How do you think a user can gain access if they have no access permissions
on the database themselves?
The only thing a user can do is to query it via getpwent() which is the
same access they had previously when using /etc/passwd.
Jason Clifford
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- Re: [Nss-mysql-users] Problems building, Chris Snyder, 2002/06/06
- Re: [Nss-mysql-users] Problems building, Guillaume Morin, 2002/06/06
- [Nss-mysql-users] nss-mysql-root.conf, Nick De Decker, 2002/06/19
- Re: [Nss-mysql-users] nss-mysql-root.conf, Jason Clifford, 2002/06/19
- Re: [Nss-mysql-users] nss-mysql-root.conf, Jelmer Vernooij, 2002/06/19
- Re: [Nss-mysql-users] nss-mysql-root.conf,
Jason Clifford <=
- Re: [Nss-mysql-users] nss-mysql-root.conf, Jelmer Vernooij, 2002/06/19
- Re: [Nss-mysql-users] nss-mysql-root.conf, Jason Clifford, 2002/06/19