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Date:      Tue, 23 Jan 2001 02:42:41 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Dominic Mitchell <dom@semantico.com>
Cc:        Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com>, Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PAM (was: Re: MAIL set by whom?)
Message-ID:  <3A6C7111.80E5663F@newsguy.com>
References:  <3A6A50F3.307C9E06@nisser.com> <20010121103324.A297@frolic.no-support.loc> <3A6B042E.659C716D@nisser.com> <20010122094647.A7853@semantico.com>

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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?

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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
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dcs@freebsd.org
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