From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 29 04:47:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2E8416A4CE; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 04:47:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A820243FCB; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 04:47:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from slave-mike@rv1.dynip.com) Received: from duron.rv1.dynip.com (c-66-177-119-177.se.client2.attbi.com[66.177.119.177]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2003112912473101300dt0f0e>; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 12:47:33 +0000 Received: from rv1.dynip.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duron.rv1.dynip.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hATClWRA023284; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 07:47:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from slave-mike@rv1.dynip.com) Message-ID: <3FC89564.8030209@rv1.dynip.com> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 07:47:32 -0500 From: slave-mike User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" References: <20031129011334.GC88553@madman.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <20031129011334.GC88553@madman.celabo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NSS and PAM (was Re: NSS and PAM, dynamic vs. static) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 12:47:35 -0000 why does /bin/sh need NSS support? Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > [Threading intentionally broken.] > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:16:25AM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > >>"Jacques A. Vidrine" writes: >> >>>NSS and PAM do not overlap. They are complimentary and one cannot do >>>the job of the other. >> >>That is a bug in NSS, PAM or both. > > > Interesting. Explain, please. (Maybe privately or in another thread; > hate to keep this'n going.) Perhaps you mean that it is a design flaw > that two APIs are required. If so, I happen to disagree; I think that > the separation of directory services and authentication is appropriate > and necessary. > > >>(BTW, I think you mean that they are complementary, not complimentary, >>although it is certainly true that some implementations of NSS and PAM >>are free) > > > heh, Yes, that's a spell-o from which spell-check could not save me. > > Cheers, -- --- I'm a UNIX Kinda Guy. My websites: http://slavepix.dyns.net/ http://jaxleather.dyns.net/