Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:43:33 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Daniel Bond <db@danielbond.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAM completeness and standardization Message-ID: <49E8CDD5.1020602@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <34B37CEC-AF7A-48EE-81F5-7B19291F99EF@danielbond.org> References: <34B37CEC-AF7A-48EE-81F5-7B19291F99EF@danielbond.org>
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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
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