From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 11 13:33:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA14795 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:33:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fledge.watson.org (root@FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.91.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14749 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:32:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from trojanhorse.pr.watson.org (trojanhorse.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.10]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.6.10) with SMTP id QAA13928; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:32:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:32:22 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Mike Smith cc: "Ron G. Minnich" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAM? In-Reply-To: <199803111909.LAA23996@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > i need an authentication mechanism that requires no root access by the > > programs, and that will not deadlock. any candidates? > > NIS? Kerberos! :) Sorry, personal bias here. Still wondering about a long term authentication solution. A few weeks ago I posted about possibly starting an alternative authentication system mailing list on the -hackets list, and it was received well (I received a number of responses indicating people would join if created). Once I have my IETF drafts in for the week (deadline Friday) maybe I will put together a possible charter for such a mailing list. Certainly, FreeBSD should be looking at the POSIX ACLs and capabilities. I'm not sure I'd use them myself (they seem a little too single-system-centric to me) but having support in the OS can go a long way. I understand that Linux has them implemented at this point. Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message