Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:52:23 -0500 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NSS and PAM Message-ID: <1070301142.45378.2.camel@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <xzp7k1geb6x.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <20031129011334.GC88553@madman.celabo.org> <20031201142737.GC99428@madman.celabo.org> <xzp7k1geb6x.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 11:48, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > If I understand you correctly, you believe that it would be possible > > to unite the NSS and PAM switches, so that they used the same > > configuration file, dynamic loading mechanisms, cascading, and so > > on. Sure, I think that's possible. There might even be some benefit, > > though probably not enough benefit to abandon PAM/NSS and go our own > > way. > > Not to go our own way, no. There's the rub. It would have to be a > reasonably wide effort; we'd need to get at least one major Linux > distro to adopt the same infrastructure. Has anyone considered the idea of hybridizing PAM with Digital^WCompaq^WHP's SIA matrix setup? -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ. KF8NH
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