From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 17 19:00:44 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AA1F1065676 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:00:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9F1F8FC17 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:00:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1Lut23-0000sq-QT>; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:43:23 +0200 Received: from e178050069.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.50.69] helo=thor.walstatt.dyndns.org) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1Lut23-0005nB-NT>; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:43:23 +0200 Message-ID: <49E8CDD5.1020602@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:43:33 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090410) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Bond References: <34B37CEC-AF7A-48EE-81F5-7B19291F99EF@danielbond.org> In-Reply-To: <34B37CEC-AF7A-48EE-81F5-7B19291F99EF@danielbond.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 85.178.50.69 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAM completeness and standardization X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:00:45 -0000 Daniel Bond wrote: > Hi, > > > FreeBSD has excellent PAM-support, except for the passwd-command. The > passwd-command gained PAM support quite a while ago, but there is a > test preventing it from working with PAM. > There have been outstanding PR's for this minor issue for years now, I > think it's time this one got fixed. People find it frustrating that > they can't change their passwords (LDAP etc), like they can in a > normal PAM-based system. > > > I'd be happy to fix whatever needs to be done, but I need to know why > it's not been fixed / what needs to be done for it to be accepted by > the community. > > > -DB. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Good luck. In this case I gave up. There are patches floating around the web and I suggest patching passw.c manually. For two years now, I do this to come along with our OpenLDAP environment. Regards, Oliver