From owner-freebsd-security Sun Nov 22 17:56:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09504 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 17:56:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA09497 for ; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 17:56:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA04369; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 18:55:22 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <3658C089.9920E41F@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 18:55:21 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Hermit Hacker CC: Dima Ruban , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAM on FreeBSD (was Would this make FreeBSD more secure?) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > 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 :) Did you happen to read my Daemon's Advocate article about this topic? I received news of the FreeBSD PAM work shortly after it was published, in the inaugural issue of Daemon News. If not, please see http://www.daemonnews.org/199809/daemonadvoc.html I will, of course, be writing an update on this topic soon, so the BSD community will be up-to-date. Once I've installed and configured this and given it a thorough wringing out, which may not happen until after the first of the year. > Thanks loads John...work *long* overdue... Indeed, my thanks as well, John. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message