Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 19:13:34 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: NSS and PAM (was Re: NSS and PAM, dynamic vs. static) Message-ID: <20031129011334.GC88553@madman.celabo.org>
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[Threading intentionally broken.] On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:16:25AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > NSS and PAM do not overlap. They are complimentary and one cannot do > > the job of the other. > > That is a bug in NSS, PAM or both. Interesting. Explain, please. (Maybe privately or in another thread; hate to keep this'n going.) Perhaps you mean that it is a design flaw that two APIs are required. If so, I happen to disagree; I think that the separation of directory services and authentication is appropriate and necessary. > (BTW, I think you mean that they are complementary, not complimentary, > although it is certainly true that some implementations of NSS and PAM > are free) heh, Yes, that's a spell-o from which spell-check could not save me. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine NTT/Verio SME FreeBSD UNIX Heimdal nectar@celabo.org jvidrine@verio.net nectar@freebsd.org nectar@kth.se
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