From owner-cvs-all Wed Nov 13 17:56: 2 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCF8737B401 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:56:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BAC443E6E for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:56:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gAE1psXD013326; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:51:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAE1obXq013309; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:50:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:50:37 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Blaz Zupan Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf src/libexec Makefile Message-ID: <20021114015037.GA13284@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20021113201911.GD10193_dragon.nuxi.com@ns.sol.net> <20021113210701.BFEF55795E@silver.inlimbo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021113210701.BFEF55795E@silver.inlimbo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:07:00PM +0100, Blaz Zupan wrote: > In sol.lists.freebsd.cvs.all, you wrote: > > Heck, I'd like to propose to the TRB to remove PAM from the base system. > > No one I talk to has found any use for it, and it hasn't provided any > > functionality that I know of that we did not have before we brought in > > PAM. While we are all aware of the constaint pain it gives users. > > I'm sure you are kidding and you just forgot to add a smiley to your text. For > what its worth, we're using PAM for lots of things, including authenticating our > POP and IMAP users from a MySQL database. We also manage FTP access to our > customer web server through PAM (the passwords are again kept in a MySQL > database for easy maintenance). It would be great to get "how-to"s for these type of setups. It would help others appreciate PAM more. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message