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Monday, August 08, 2005

PAM, ncpfs and timeouts

We're currently putting together a disk image for a lab full of Linux machines at Rhodes. The image is based on Novell Linux Desktop 9 and uses our existing Novell eDirectory for authentication and home directories.

In order to achieve this we've made heavy use of the ncpfs package. ncpfs provides a way for Linux users to mount Novell NSS volumes. It contains a series of userland tools (such as ncpmount) to allow users to mount remote volumes, print to Novell print queues, etc. It also contains a contributed PAM module (pam_ncp_auth) that allows us to automate most of this.

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posted by guy at: 15:03 SAST | path: /systems | permanent link

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