RE: openpegasus password file

OpenPegasus 2.11.00 does not compile with
PEGASUS_PAM_AUTHENTICATION=true, saying "cimmofl not found".
Something goes wrong while building the tools :(

Am Mittwoch, den 01.06.2011, 09:59 +0000 schrieb Deshpande, Rohini
(STSD):
> Anton,
> 
> Open Pegasus uses PAM, so it does use /etc/shadow if present. The PAM conf file Open Pegasus uses is usually named /etc/pam.d/wbem.
> 
> You can modify the above PAM configuration file to allow non local users. But currently there is a defect related to this http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8653. You can try the patch in the bug.
> 
> Regards,
> Rohini
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anton Hergenröder [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 2:55 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: openpegasus password file
> 
> Is there any way to use an existing password file, like shadow on linux
> systems? As cimserver requires all its users to be valid local system
> users, it is tricky to permit users to change their passwords...
> 
> Generally, why does pegasus require all its users be valid local users?
> As we have a quite dynamic set of pegasus users, it's a big effort to
> manage this....
> 
> Best regards
> Anton Hergenröder
> 
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