[OpenAFS] AFS Authentication with PAM

[Ulisses Reina Montenegro]

Greetings,

We are trying to use pam_afs in order to test some [possible] glitches
before moving into a completely distributed authentication system such
as Kerberos or LDAP. We are, however, having some problems regarding
user management and pam_afs -- a user cannot login unless an entry for
him exists in the local pwdb (either shadow, plain passwd or something
equivalent). This breaks the transparency of a fully distributed
authentication system, as we have to create every single user in every
single machine, and AFS seems to be used only when checking passwords.
Is this a known PAM/Linux glitch? What is the workaround for this?

BTW, I am sorry if this is not the right place to ask, but PAM FAQs and
mailing list archives did not help much.

Thanks,
Ulisses Montenegro

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