From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 22 9:45:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A956A37B698; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:45:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (p33-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.98]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id CAA27607; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 02:45:08 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3A6C7111.80E5663F@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 02:42:41 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dominic Mitchell Cc: Roelof Osinga , Bjoern Fischer , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAM (was: Re: MAIL set by whom?) References: <3A6A50F3.307C9E06@nisser.com> <20010121103324.A297@frolic.no-support.loc> <3A6B042E.659C716D@nisser.com> <20010122094647.A7853@semantico.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > 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. Ports shouldn't touch /etc. Does the existance of /etc/pam.conf precludes /usr/local/etc/pam.d from working? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@a.crazy.bsdconspiracy.net "There is no spoon." -- Kiki To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message