From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 23 12:15:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0AF137B4D7 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 12:15:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 15275 invoked by uid 0); 23 Nov 2000 20:15:49 -0000 Received: from p3ee2161e.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (62.226.22.30) by mail.gmx.net (mail06) with SMTP; 23 Nov 2000 20:15:49 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA19489 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:53:33 +0100 Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:53:32 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hmm..passwords. Message-ID: <20001123185332.U27042@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-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> <20001122125214.B50977@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20001122125214.B50977@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 12:52:14PM -0800 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > 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>. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message