From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 20 13:50:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (pm2a-s37.guate.net [200.12.57.176]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41377154A4 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:50:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obonilla@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu) Received: (from obonilla@localhost) by voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA01004; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:49:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from obonilla) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:49:19 -0600 From: Oscar Bonilla To: John Polstra Cc: obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990720144919.B426@fisicc-ufm.edu> References: <199907192111.OAA01326@dingo.cdrom.com> <3793ABE0.15090E38@softweyr.com> <19990719180026.A830@fisicc-ufm.edu> <19990720225929.A9510@patho.gen.nz> <19990720082825.B793@fisicc-ufm.edu> <199907201849.LAA69126@vashon.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <199907201849.LAA69126@vashon.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 11:49:42AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 11:49:42AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > In article <19990720082825.B793@fisicc-ufm.edu>, > Oscar Bonilla wrote: > > > Couldn't we do this with /etc/auth.conf? > > The plan when PAM was brought in was to eliminate auth.conf. I don't > think we should be looking for new uses for it. > ok, so this clarifies a lot of things... let's get rid of /etc/auth.conf and go with /etc/pam.conf for the authentication and /etc/nsswitch.conf for the info on where to obtain the databases from. Regards, -Oscar -- For PGP Public Key: finger obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message