From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 21 13: 6: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5EAD37B400 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 13:05:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2LL5kq59289; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 16:05:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lowell@world.std.com) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to lowell@world.std.com using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DB Authentication References: <20020319123257.H23375@sjt-u10.cisco.com> <20020319123717.6b13ab8c.Zapper@FoxChat.Net> <033c01c1cf6d$a44c8e30$2aa8a8c0@melim.com.br> <44it7squbm.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <00b001c1d009$6a1f3e00$2aa8a8c0@melim.com.br> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 21 Mar 2002 16:05:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <00b001c1d009$6a1f3e00$2aa8a8c0@melim.com.br> Message-ID: <443cytk4wl.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Ronan Lucio" writes: > I need to do this to create new options like, the user maintain his > own account by himself, and I=B4ve been some tests with passwd file, > but the passwd file have corrupted some times with simultaneous > access. The password commands lock the passwd database themselves, so this seems unlikely. > I looking for the easier (faster) way to get it and I should to know > if I must use pam.pgsql ou pam.ldap. I don't know about faster; the default method uses a hashed database, and it's unlikely that an SQL database would be able to beat it for speed.=20 > I=B4ve seem many people saing that ldap is hard to make it work, but > I don=B4t know if I use pam.pgsql I=B4ll do all servirces authenticate. This may turn out to be a good question. If they use the recommended functions for accessing authentication functionality, it should just work, but there may be some unconverted services around. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message