Re: GLUG: LDAP enabled FTP - ?

[Michael-John Turner <mj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 10:38:25AM +0100, Graham Leggett wrote:
> Does anyone know of anything that fits the bill? The closest we have
> found so far is Proftpd with LDAP extensions which will authenticate
> users against LDAP, but still requires each user have a posix account on
> the machine, which we don't want.

ProFTPD can auth via PAM, so you may want to try using that instead of 
"raw" LDAP. Just configure it to use LDAP via PAM and you should be
set (at least it looks that way from a quick squizz through the docs).

-mj
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