Re: UNIX: How to determine the authentication domain of a user ?

On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 05:04 -0800, C. wrote:
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> You don't. You'd need to rewrite the pam modules in your chain to set
> a flag somewhere but its an ugly way to solve a silly problem

The main problem is pam_unix (or pam_unix2) which uses nsswitch.
If every auth was just a pam stack module, you could insert a dummy
module inside of the stack order to determine at what level
a user achieved auth.

But since NIS and files was mentioned... that's all pam_unix*.