From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 21 4:21: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7DA137BC9A; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 04:20:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE) Received: from marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.159]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id NAA15711; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 13:20:52 +0100 (MET) Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id NAA04836; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 13:20:52 +0100 (MET) Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-6) id NAA21074; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 13:20:52 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de: grossjoh set sender to Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE using -f To: current@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crypto progress! (And a Biiiig TODO list) References: <20000218062947.B0DDE1CD9@overcee.netplex.com.au> <200002180743.JAA26529@gratis.grondar.za> <38B121AC.B2F0E2E3@originative.co.uk> From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai=?iso-8859-1?q?_Gro=DFjohann?=) Date: 21 Feb 2000 13:20:52 +0100 In-Reply-To: Paul Richards's message of "Mon, 21 Feb 2000 11:29:48 +0000" Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0804 (Gnus v5.8.4) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul Richards writes: > The daemon approach actually has benfits that I'm keen on that aren't > related to security. A single point of access to the data means that the > backend can be changed so that passwords can be in a different file or a > database, without having to worry about rebuilding all the binaries. You > could even split users across different back end systems. This sounds like PAM, doesn't it? kai -- ~/.signature: No such file or directory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message