From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 18 13:10:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA06986 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:10:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tversu.ru (mail.tversu.ru [62.76.80.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA06966; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:10:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vadim@gala.tversu.ru) Received: from gala.tversu.ru (vadim@gala.tversu.ru [62.76.80.10]) by tversu.ru (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01429; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 00:08:51 +0300 (MSK) Received: (from vadim@localhost) by gala.tversu.ru (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA11093; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 00:09:14 +0300 (MSK) Message-ID: <19981119000914.A11045@tversu.ru> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 00:09:14 +0300 From: Vadim Kolontsov To: Joel Ray Holveck , Mikael Karpberg Cc: Matthew Dillon , William McVey , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Would this make FreeBSD more secure? References: <199811172058.VAA02065@ocean.campus.luth.se> <86hfvwixby.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <86hfvwixby.fsf@detlev.UUCP>; from Joel Ray Holveck on Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 02:02:09PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 02:02:09PM -0600, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > Another point is that this could be easily augmented to handle other > authentication methods. For example, OTPs, hand scanners, physical > keys, etc could all be handled by this one utility instead of having > to write it into each and every program that needs a password. > (Something keeps popping into my head talking about Kerberos, but I > don't know why.) I wonder how many people would like to see PAM support in FreeBSD?.. Regards, V. -- Vadim Kolontsov Tver Internet Center NOC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message