From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 22 12:52:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E24E37B479 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:52:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA37885; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:52:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAMKqEC51214; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:52:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:52:14 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Bill Fumerola Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hmm..passwords. Message-ID: <20001122125214.B50977@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001121135541.A14220@nevermind.kiev.ua> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001121180236.U14080@elvis.mu.org>; from billf@mu.org on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 06:02:36PM -0600 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-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message