From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Apr 14 11:03:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA02557 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 11:03:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA02543 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 11:03:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id KAA01807; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 10:59:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3352707F.2781E494@whistle.com> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 10:59:27 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Dillon CC: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some advice needed. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Dillon wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > > Right now, login uses /etc/pwd.db for authentication. Some people have > > > hacked login to act as a RADIUS client too I believe. But what about > > > TACACS? And what about PAM? > > > > Hmm, what is PAM used for since TACACS is what Cisco uses I think. > > PAM is something SUN invented and I think it means Pluggable > Authentication Modules. It has also been implemented on RedHat Linux > so that is probably the best source of detailled info at this time. > > Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting > Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049 > http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com the MIT PAM (as seen in linux) is also available under BSD licence.. there was a talk on it at USENIX in Jan.