Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:52:14 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hmm..passwords. Message-ID: <20001122125214.B50977@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20001121180236.U14080@elvis.mu.org>; from billf@mu.org on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 06:02:36PM -0600 References: <20001121135541.A14220@nevermind.kiev.ua> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011210704230.88234-100000@epsilon.lucida.ca> <20001121082750.A2922@citusc17.usc.edu> <20001121114933.D27266@stat.Duke.EDU> <20001121085551.A3534@citusc17.usc.edu> <20001121153112.B1910@dragon.nuxi.com> <20001121180236.U14080@elvis.mu.org>
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On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 06:02:36PM -0600, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 03:31:12PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > Maybe in the future we'll get this level granularity. Or maybe this
> > should have been folded into PAM (which really feels orphaned in FreeBSD
> > and very few know the vision for PAM w/in FreeBSD).
>
> I don't really see what we need as far as a "vision" for PAM, its in
> our tree, lots of applications use it, some more should use it.
If more people understood our intended uses of PAM, maybe more would
change applications to use it.
> I'm happy :->
I'm not the only one that feels this way. Gerhard posted this to
-security or -stable (don't remember which). Since you're pretty
comfortable with PAM, could you reply to him? Maybe we'll get more
documentation on it.
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 06:38:26PM +0100, Gerhard Sittig
<Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> wrote:
> While we're at this: Where can I learn more about PAM in the
> FreeBSD environment? I'm aware of being OT, but this is a reply
> to a -stable article and I offer to collect the answers and
> summarize them for -stable, -doc or -questions (even when I'm not
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