From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 09:54:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E27EB16A4CE; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:54:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from bache.ece.cmu.edu (BACHE.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.129.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 040CA43F75; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:53:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: by bache.ece.cmu.edu (Postfix, from userid 953) id F1018A4; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:53:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from [128.2.138.33] (VPN33.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.138.33]) by bache.ece.cmu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45E3AB1; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:52:56 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" To: Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= In-Reply-To: References: <20031129011334.GC88553@madman.celabo.org> <20031201142737.GC99428@madman.celabo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Message-Id: <1070301142.45378.2.camel@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:52:23 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-38.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_01,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_XIMIAN autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: "Jacques A. Vidrine" cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NSS and PAM X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 17:54:10 -0000 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