topic HP SMH Network auth in Operating System - Linux

HP SMH Network auth

Rabie Van der Merwe — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:34:24 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to configure HP SMH to allow network auth. Our linux server are AD enabled (we get uid/gid via ldap wiht nsswitch.conf) and do krb5 authentication via pam. If you are on one of our systems doing an 'id bob' will return bob's (network)uid. bob also belongs to an networkwheel group.

Specifying any of these in /opt/hp/hpsmh/conf/smhpd.xml does get me in, hpsmh complains that the user is not found on the local system.

Does anyone know if hpsmd scanns the /etc/passwd and /etc/group file? Is there a work arround that I can put inplace where hpsmd can auth against the local system?

Re: HP SMH Network auth

avizen9 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:23:51 GMT

Plese refer this below links ita having all your answer, let me know if could not, thanks,

http://docs.hp.com/en/381372-004/ch04s05.html

http://docs.hp.com/en/381383-004/ch05s01.html

Re: HP SMH Network auth

Rabie Van der Merwe — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:37:48 GMT

Thanks for the links. They cover the installation etc, but from what I can see the user on a Linux/UX server has to be a local user in the /etc/passwd file else it wont work.
Which is a pity, if you used a central passwd server like we do your stuffed.