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Date:      Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:50:37 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Blaz Zupan <blaz@inlimbo.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf src/libexec Makefile
Message-ID:  <20021114015037.GA13284@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021113210701.BFEF55795E@silver.inlimbo.org>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021113085120.66084B-100000_fledge.watson.org@ns.sol.net> <20021113201911.GD10193_dragon.nuxi.com@ns.sol.net> <20021113210701.BFEF55795E@silver.inlimbo.org>

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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.

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