From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 15 06:43:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA8A716A4CE; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:43:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.36.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F32E543D1F; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:43:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from [12.32.36.74] (imagination.dreamchaser.org. [12.32.36.74]) i9F6hhuD055146; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:43:43 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Message-ID: <416F719E.6000400@dreamchaser.org> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:43:42 -0600 From: freebsd@dreamchaser.org User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Rhodes References: <416F04F3.7020603@dreamchaser.org> <20041014201402.7449c8b8@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20041014201402.7449c8b8@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pam.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:43:44 -0000 Thanks! My question wasn't so much where to look for the info on the web, as I solved my particular problem, but whether or not there is a missing piece in the distribution. It seems to me that if one gets an error message saying there is a pam problem, a "man pam" ought to get one pointers to where to deal with it, particularly if the task is how to configure pam services; and doing so in this case doesn't work. man pam gives one the hint that /etc/pam.conf is the file of interest, but there isn't a template or a man page for it. If the article on pam is supposed to be the reference for how to edit pam.conf and the files in pam.d, then the man page for pam should reference it, imho. My query was made with the intent of suggesting an improvement in the docs. I'm currently not, unfortunately, in a position of actually working on them. I'm trying to bring up a system with enough storage to build things and make some useful contributions, but it's a fair ways from being there. Gary Tom Rhodes wrote: >>I'm in the process of installing 5.3b7. >>On my first attempt to su, I got a pam failure. >>The pam man page has a see also for pam.conf >>Unfortunately, the pam.conf man page is missing. >>I think this an oversight? >>The critical info I needed was in the 4.10 page. > > > In FreeBSD 5, we use OpenPAM in place of the linuxPAM we shipped > with 4.X. There is a great article written by DES, which explains > PAM a good bit. Look for it on: > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs.html >