Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:50:37 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Blaz Zupan <blaz@inlimbo.org> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf src/libexec Makefile Message-ID: <20021114015037.GA13284@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20021113210701.BFEF55795E@silver.inlimbo.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021113085120.66084B-100000_fledge.watson.org@ns.sol.net> <20021113201911.GD10193_dragon.nuxi.com@ns.sol.net> <20021113210701.BFEF55795E@silver.inlimbo.org>
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On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:07:00PM +0100, Blaz Zupan wrote: > In sol.lists.freebsd.cvs.all, you wrote: > > Heck, I'd like to propose to the TRB to remove PAM from the base system. > > No one I talk to has found any use for it, and it hasn't provided any > > functionality that I know of that we did not have before we brought in > > PAM. While we are all aware of the constaint pain it gives users. > > I'm sure you are kidding and you just forgot to add a smiley to your text. For > what its worth, we're using PAM for lots of things, including authenticating our > POP and IMAP users from a MySQL database. We also manage FTP access to our > customer web server through PAM (the passwords are again kept in a MySQL > database for easy maintenance). It would be great to get "how-to"s for these type of setups. It would help others appreciate PAM more. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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