Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 07:47:57 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAM, S/Key and authentication schemes. Message-ID: <20010530074757.A53937@spawn.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <3B14B109.C08F1970@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:36:25AM -0700 References: <89661.990794824@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> <3B14B109.C08F1970@mindspring.com>
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On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:36:25AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > We talked to the Sun guy who came up with PAM at the last > FreeBSD user's group meeting, in Foster City, CA, last > month. > > The PAM API, as it currently sits, is incapable of correctly > supporting Kerberos, and several other authentication schemes. > > Apparently, the only way to fix this is to change the PAM API. Hey, I'm glad that has sunk in. We debated about this back in February (thread in this forum containing Message-ID <20010217190800.A38833@spawn.nectar.com>). Moreover, I think Mark already understands this, and in this thread when `authentication' appears, it should almost always be read as `interactive authentication' e.g. enter a secret or respond to a challenge or such. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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