Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:43:55 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: old version of PAM in 3.0-stable stopping Samba working? Message-ID: <199901271743.JAA25806@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <19990127184448.A5368@ucb.crimea.ua> References: <199901271414.OAA00492@hawk.gnome.co.uk> <36AF3D68.417FACC4@we.lc.ehu.es>
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In article <19990127184448.A5368@ucb.crimea.ua>,
Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> wrote:
>
> Samba port was modified to disable PAM by default.
Good. That's the best solution for now. I didn't realize that the
samba port was going to auto-detect the presence of PAM and try to use
it, or I would have fixed that when I imported PAM.
Our PAM support is not "incompatible" with Linux, or "old". It's
simply a subset at this point in time. Most of the Linux modules
(look for yourself) are both Linux-specific and poorly written.
Frankly, I don't want them to be used for authentication in FreeBSD.
I'm working on filling in the gaps in our module support and also in
PAMifying our other applications such as ftpd and telnetd. It takes
time, but it's moving along steadily. You may have noticed that I
committed the support for static PAM libraries within the past week or
so.
John
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
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