From owner-freebsd-security Sat Nov 21 16:01:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04626 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 16:01:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat0070.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.188.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA04600 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 16:01:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA08932; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 19:59:49 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 19:59:49 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Mark Murray cc: Keith Stevenson , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAM on FreeBSD (was Would this make FreeBSD more secure?) In-Reply-To: <199811190636.IAA48857@greenpeace.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Mark Murray wrote: > Keith Stevenson wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 12:09:14AM +0300, Vadim Kolontsov wrote: > > > > > > I wonder how many people would like to see PAM support in FreeBSD?.. > > > > ABSOLUTELY NOT! > > Er, too late. > > > I suffered through PAM on a RedHat Linux box. The combination of > > flaky Linuxisms, PAM, and the SYSV-style init drove me to FreeBSD. > > I've been very VERY happy ever since. Please don't visit that > > nightmare on us here. At least don't integrate it with the base > > install. Something like the way we do kerberos would be nice for > > those who would want it and let those like me who have problems with > > it avoid it. > > John Polstra has done a pretty good job of cleaning it up. There is a > lot of new code in there, and jdp is not daft. Woo hoo!!! Now my FreeBSD boxes can speak PAM like my Solaris boxes... Great work John...!! Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message