From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 21 09:35:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA00991 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 09:35:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from detlev.UUCP (43-sweet.camalott.com [208.239.153.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA00687 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 09:33:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA27207; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 11:29:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joelh) To: John Polstra Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Install new /etc/pam.conf file from /usr/src/etc References: From: Joel Ray Holveck Date: 21 Nov 1998 11:29:27 -0600 In-Reply-To: John Polstra's message of "Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:33:05 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: <86ogq1ymx4.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > For those folks who haven't heard about it, PAM stands for Pluggable > Authentication Modules. It is a flexible way to configure the kinds > of authentication (passwd/NIS, S/Key, Kerberos, RADIUS, TACACS+) used > in your system. Each authentication method is encapsulated in an [snip] This is something I've been wanting for a long while. Do you have a URL where I can get an API and other such info? I've got some ideas that I want to add in. Are we going to move S/Key, Kerberos, etc. out of login, ftpd, etc? Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message