Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 20:05:23 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Dima Ruban <dima@best.net> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAM on FreeBSD (was Would this make FreeBSD more secure?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811212001120.457-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199811191754.JAA11958@burka.rdy.com>
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Dima Ruban wrote:
> Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
> > > I wonder whether it's too late to change /usr/include/security to
> > > something else like /usr/include/pam
> >
> > See the commit message. John doesn't like it either, but there
> > are good reasons for it nonetheless. Good enough for him to
> > exercise an option he himself found icky, anyway.
>
> Right. His argument was that it would be not the best idea in the world
> to hack each and every PAM module that we adopt.
> To me - I'd rather ifdef all this stuff than have /usr/include/security
> dedicated to PAM. I don't think we should repeat mistakes on some other
> operating system. Especially since you've mentioned that we're not taking
> modules from Linux (or at least not so many of them).
Personally, I kinda like the fact that FreeBSD has finally joined
*both* Solaris and Linux in supporting PAM. I realize that for most out
there, its a Linux vs FreeBSD sort of thing, but, if I remember my
research properly, PAM was a Sun-ism first, that Linux flew with, and just
by finally bringing it in, we open ourselves up to a massive amount of new
authentication mechanism...
Of key interest to me is NDS/Radiusd authentication, as it is what
we use on Campus/work...now I can take what i've done with Solaris for
authentication and bring my FreeBSD machines up to speed with it :)
Thanks loads John...work *long* overdue...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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