Re: [Nufw-users] Questions

[Vincent Deffontaines]

Julien Desfossez said:
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> Hi,
>
> I'm very happy to learn that nufw works well with your high number of
> users, congratulations !!
>
> But I have some questions :
>     -   Will the Linux client be integrated with the environnement
> (with pam for example) to grab login and password automatically at the
> beginning of the session like the windows one ?


This is currently not implemented, but probably can be done quite easily
with PAM. We :
- may code it some day
- will of course gladly accept such contributions :)


>     -   I've installed nutcpc on my ibook running debian, it starts
> without problem, but when I try to connect, nuauth says "osfied too
> long" and it doesn't authenticate my packets. However uname -a gives
> "Linux minibook 2.6.10 #6 Sun Feb 27 20:48:06 CET 2005 ppc GNU/Linux"
> so I don't understand where comes the problem from. Moreover I've
> tested with a i386 machine and it works great whereas the uname -a
> output was longer...

This looks like a problem indeed. We're looking at the code for little/big
endian matters ; possibly we'll get back to you with requests for more
details.


>
>     -   At last, I've seen that nuauth search users in LDAP with
> cn=...,ou=People... but in most directories I've seen, the users are
> qualified by uid=...,ou=People... It's not hard to change depending on
> the need but I would suggest to put this detail in the configuration
> file in order to be adapted for every environnements.

Good idea, we'll add comments in the config file.

>
> Thanks for your answers
>
> Julien Desfossez
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