From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 18 13:45:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA12657 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:45:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-107.camalott.com [208.229.74.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA12631; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:45:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA01542; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 15:44:26 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joelh) To: Vadim Kolontsov Cc: Mikael Karpberg , 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> <19981119000914.A11045@tversu.ru> From: Joel Ray Holveck Date: 18 Nov 1998 15:44:25 -0600 In-Reply-To: Vadim Kolontsov's message of "Thu, 19 Nov 1998 00:09:14 +0300" Message-ID: <864srwisli.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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?.. Hmm... Methinks you aren't talking about the cooking spray (although I am working on a kitchen computer... maybe add a few robotics... hmm...) :-) Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message