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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:46:47 +0000
From: Dominic Mitchell <dom@semantico.com>
To: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com>
Cc: Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>,
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Subject: PAM (was: Re: MAIL set by whom?)
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:45:50PM +0100, Roelof Osinga wrote:
> Grand gesture. Laudable even. Yeah, that PAM sure seems to've
> become popular. The Courier IMAP port also insisted upon its
> installation. Insisted in that fiddling with the makefile only
> resulted in failure to configure. But that's a whole different
> story.

Would it be a good idea to start using /etc/pam.d ala RedHat, instead of
the monolithic /etc/pam.conf?

As far as I can see the support is already there, it's just not being
used due to the presence of the /etc/pam.conf.

This would make installing PAM entries far easier for the ports.

-Dom


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