From owner-freebsd-arch Sat May 26 14:55:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB8CD37B422 for ; Sat, 26 May 2001 14:55:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@[206.40.252.115]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f4QLtNl37907; Sat, 26 May 2001 14:55:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f4QLtLp12084; Sat, 26 May 2001 14:55:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 14:55:21 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Mark Murray Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAM, S/Key and authentication schemes. Message-ID: <20010526145521.D11876@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <200105251240.f4PCeO612402@gratis.grondar.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200105251240.f4PCeO612402@gratis.grondar.za>; from mark@grondar.za on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:42:40PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:42:40PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > We currently have a slew of authentication schemes in FreeBSD. There > is the usual lot in getpwent(3) and friends, OPIE, S/Key and PAM, and Is there some reason we cannot `cvs rm' S/Key and only use OPIE? OPIE was intended as a replacement for S/Key. > S/Key is OBE in my opinion and needs to be entirely replaced by OPIE. > (And in the majority of cases pam_opie will do the job). Do you know why ?ache? did not totally replace S/Key when he imported OPIE? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message