Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 18:27:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu (David E. Cross) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD authentication... Message-ID: <199710201827.LAA09252@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971018102700.27956A-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> from "David E. Cross" at Oct 18, 97 10:29:58 am
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Is there any interest (should there be) to mooving to Pluggabl > Authentication Modules. (Since they are implimented as shared libraries, > that you link in as needed, would we need to rewrite ld.so a bit to ensure > that people couldn't set their LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and then run su to get > full root acces, sans password?) Have you located a PAM implementation (not necessarily modules, but the framework itself) which is under UCB copyright instead of GPL? User authentication is a system critical function, like the kernel; it's unlikely that PAM would be any more acceptable than a GPL'ed driver if it's critical to system operation. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199710201827.LAA09252>