Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:53:32 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hmm..passwords. Message-ID: <20001123185332.U27042@speedy.gsinet> In-Reply-To: <20001122125214.B50977@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 12:52:14PM -0800 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> <20001122125214.B50977@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 12:52 -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 06:02:36PM -0600, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> >
> > 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
The more important part was a little later in the message:
| The background is BTW that I'm searching for a centralized user
| database for all the services summing up in a LAN environment
| (ssh sessions, smbfs and print services, email access, cvs
| repos, maybe ftp and some others). In case I'm heading for the
| wrong direction thinking of PAM I would appreciate getting
| corrected and taught of alternatives, too. But I failed to see
| what, say, Kerberos could do for me except for authenticating
| login sessions or filesystem access. There is documentation on
| how to set it up, but I haven't found what I could achieve with
| it.
The whole story (describing my failure to learn more about PAM in
FreeBSD environments) is in <20001111183826.G25237@speedy.gsinet>.
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