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Date:      Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:03:52 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PAM (was: Re: MAIL set by whom?)
Message-ID:  <20010123210352.A26571@citusc17.usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3A6C7111.80E5663F@newsguy.com>; from dcs@newsguy.com on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:42:41AM %2B0900
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:42:41AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> >=20
> > On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:45:50PM +0100, Roelof Osinga wrote:
> > > Grand gesture. Laudable even. Yeah, that PAM sure seems to've
> > > become popular. The Courier IMAP port also insisted upon its
> > > installation. Insisted in that fiddling with the makefile only
> > > resulted in failure to configure. But that's a whole different
> > > story.
> >=20
> > Would it be a good idea to start using /etc/pam.d ala RedHat, instead of
> > the monolithic /etc/pam.conf?
> >=20
> > As far as I can see the support is already there, it's just not being
> > used due to the presence of the /etc/pam.conf.
> >=20
> > This would make installing PAM entries far easier for the ports.
>=20
> Ports shouldn't touch /etc.
>=20
> Does the existance of /etc/pam.conf precludes /usr/local/etc/pam.d from
> working?

Yes, at present (well, it doesn't know about /usr/local/etc/pam.d):
from pam(8):

       ticate users. This dynamic configuration  is  set  by  the
       contents    of   the   single   PAM   configuration   file
       /etc/pam.conf.  Alternatively, the  configuration  can  be
       set  by  individual  configuration  files  located  in the
       /etc/pam.d/ directory.  The  presence  of  this  directory
       will cause PAM to ignore /etc/pam.conf.

FWIW, I agree about the need for the change.

Kris

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