Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:12:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Eugeny Kuzakov <kev@lab321.ru>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAM4FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807291101050.1337-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199807290642.XAA00773@antipodes.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Mike Smith wrote:
> > Hi !
> >
> > One question. Is FreeBSD will support PAM ?
>
> I don't know of anyone with plans to add PAM support, no. I ported the
> Linux-PAM code some time back, but PAM is inherently flawed and the
> effort involved in making it work would not necessarily produce a
> useful result.
Still, I think something should be decided wrt. the way various auth.
schemes can be plugged in without doing it each time from the grounds.
Thus far it was done by patching by hand the appropriate programs, which
is clumsy and sometimes leaves us with almost indentical sections of auth.
code (cf. ftp & login) which have to be maintained together with millions
of #ifdef's, etc etc...
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.
Andrzej Bialecki
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