Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:05:43 -0800 From: Michael Kiernan <mkiernan@avantgo.com> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: full PAM support for login, rshd, and su Message-ID: <20010118010543.9424DF80D@nayarit.avantgo.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:07:39 CST." <20010117160739.Q76347@elvis.mu.org>
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On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:07:39 CST, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 04:47:35PM -0500, David J. MacKenzie wrote: > > > I think if you're going to ship PAM, you should actually use it. > > The OpenSSH shipped with FreeBSD (as of 4.2-STABLE) is also missing > > the USE_PAM support that's in the portable OpenSSH release. I highly > > recommend importing that code into your source tree. I'm going to > > have to do so in my tree. > > The openssh people have made life difficult for those trying to do work > in this area by instantly forking all their code. Is there a reason we import from OpenBSD's OpenSSH source tree as opposed to importing the "portable" release? OpenBSD will probably never use PAM. Since we use their code we put ourselves in the position of duplicating the work that goes into the portable release, such as the PAM support. Can somebody shed some light on the background of this decision? Just curious. Thanks, Mike -- Michael Kiernan mkiernan@avantgo.com +1-650-638-7581 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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