Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 21:17:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD authentication... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971020211634.20816A-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199710201827.LAA09252@usr05.primenet.com>
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On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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? > The MIT PAM which Linux uses is under a dual BSD/GNU copyright. > 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. >
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