From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 4 23:33:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA22759 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 23:33:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl ([148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA22739 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 23:32:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA28494; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 08:35:43 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 08:35:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: John Polstra cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAM4FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199808041736.KAA08122@austin.polstra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, John Polstra wrote: > I have been working on PAM for a client, and the client is willing > to donate the work to FreeBSD. I think any flaws in PAM are not too > serious, and can be fixed. I plan to bring it into -current when I > get the official go-ahead from my client. Hey, that's great news! I'm willing to write some auth modules when it's done... > > There is already existing framework of *CAP_AUTH, which was meant to be > > used together with login_* modules. Is it dead or something? If it's dead, > > let's bury its remains, and if not - let's start to write login_* modules. > > I looked at that stuff, and I want to remove it. It is very poorly > defined even in BSD/OS, whence it came. Also it is inferior to Good. Thus far, it was only causing confusion with no benefits. Andrzej Bialecki +---------------------+------------------------+--------------------------+ | | When in problem or in | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { | | Research & Academic | doubt, run in circles, | fetch("FreeBSD"); | | Network in Poland | scream and shout. | } | + --------------------+------------------------+--------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message